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cufflink and tie pin identification please
« on: Saturday 05 January 13 21:04 GMT (UK) »
hi, can anyone please help identify the badge on the cufflinks, and whether the tie pin is of any significance?  they were found in my great uncle in laws belongings, we're not sure if they were his, or belonged to any other relatives.  They may not be military at all, but the badge on the cufflinks struck us as looking like a regimental badge, but I can't find anything. The tie pin just seems unusual!  thanks for any help anyone can give! E
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Re: cufflink and tie pin identification please
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 05 January 13 21:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

Welcome to Rootschat!

I just wonder if you can either put a better pic of the tie pin up for us all to look at, or perhaps describe what it is we are looking at, because it is not easy to make it out in the picture, then I feel sure someone will be able to help you!

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Re: cufflink and tie pin identification please
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 05 January 13 21:50 GMT (UK) »
First impression is that they are RAF wings!
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Re: cufflink and tie pin identification please
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 05 January 13 21:51 GMT (UK) »
sorry! its not very good pic is it. hopefully this will be easier to see.... its a duck (i think) sitting on a missile/submarine/something!

RAF wings? interesting... thanks!

 thanks E
Siggers/Fallows/Candler/Levell/Downing/Olive - mine
Houlbrook/Cordingley/Nunn/Foster/BrittonIillingworth/Lees/Stratford - his

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Re: cufflink and tie pin identification please
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 05 January 13 22:06 GMT (UK) »
Well done, that's much better!!
Hutchinson - Nottingham.
Rowland - Nottingham.
Parkin - Co Durham/Nottingham.
Gardiner/Gardner/Gardener - Co Durham.
Drake - Derbyshire/Lincolnshire/Sussex/London?
Leighton - Derbyshire.

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Re: cufflink and tie pin identification please
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 05 January 13 22:11 GMT (UK) »
Having just looked at something completely different, they could be a parachutist wings for the likes of the Parachute Regt, Royal Marines, SAS or any of the armed services parachutists. Not much help really.

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ESSEX-DEDHAM- Hitchcock
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SOMERSET-FROME area, Marshall. Dredge.
WILTSHIRE-HORNINGSHAM area-Marshall
ABERDEEN-Middleton-Milne-Cruickshank-Stevenson-Ogg

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Re: cufflink and tie pin identification please
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 05 January 13 22:16 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Copperbeech, hopefully someone will  be able to shed some light on it now!

Salty,  that was our initial thought, but the parachute ones all appear to have a parachute between the wings, whereas these don't, thanks for your help though!

E
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Re: cufflink and tie pin identification please
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 06 January 13 01:30 GMT (UK) »
Good morning,

I'm fairly certain they are not british, I thought the wings were possibly american, see picture.

Try this site http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?147395-World-Airborne-Wings

It may take a while to go through all of it, I only did the first 10 pages. The closest I saw was Italian special forces.

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Re: cufflink and tie pin identification please
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 06 January 13 01:51 GMT (UK) »
The cufflink insignia looks like a winged propeller with a crown above.  Any chance of a larger image?
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