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Thread: Period Grille Badges - And Other Works of Art

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    Thanks for the heads up

    Quote Originally Posted by Lakey View Post
    Mixed bag, a couple of interesting ones, though nothing as exotic as a Zimbabwe one.

    Cheers
    Lakey
    Hello again from Brisbane.

    Wandered past the shop out of curiosity the other day and eventually after a bit of pontification threw in a cash offer for 4 of the ones in your photo.

    Luckily having spent more than many hours in Asia following Mrs S3ute through the bazaars rather than fleshpots I fancy myself as a bit of a successful haggler and recognise the allure of tax free cash. Worked a treat and one of the 4 will likely end up actually fixed the truck, the lesser 3 are destined for the cave wall. Soon to be joined with a prime AA Zimbabwe badge one hopes - as I report, Godfrey is likely out consulting with the shamans and indunas for promising portents, probably examining chicken innards at the bottom of the $2 Chicken Inn value feed.

    Back out in eBay land, I threw in a few half-hearted feelers on a some more interesting treasure and probably would have won a couple of them had I really wanted to - but still not that inclined to overspend on wall trinkets. If nothing else it lacks the thrill of the hunt.

    Cheers,

    Neil

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    Bagged a few....

    Hello again from the Matobos.

    Happy to say that prior to crossing the great water to come here I flushed out a few badges that I had been contemplating acquiring for either the truck or the wall. Happier to say that they were subject to some lucky bargaining.

    The main one, thanks to Dan's original post which drew my attention to its existence is:



    Several of these went up on UK eBay in recent weeks and most sold for well in excess of $150 after delivery - this one went up locally for considerably less than that sum and will likely end up on the truck. Oddly enough, a couple had no "gang warily" motto which reduced their personal appeal considerably and one from India had "tang warily" which I suspect pointed to dubious providence.

    The next was pointed out by Lakey in a local curios shoppe and it too was a pretty good cash buy. Also likely to go on the truck as one of the chosen few:



    There were a few other added to the collection in recent times that will go on the wall including this old RAC job:



    So, time to have a pause on collecting for a while and refocus on throwing spare cash at my longstanding 1:1 scale project. But having said that, Godfrey and the beaters are readying themselves to go armed with screwdrivers and pliers back into the wilds next week to flush out the elusive Zim AA badge and, hopefully, bag one of the rarer Rhodesia AA 50th anniversary models should one cross their paths.

    So, back to the stoep to reflect on some pleasant collecting while the sun goes down.

    Cheers,

    Neil

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