You got to love the wording ... typical Daily Fail B.S.
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Originally posted by Ian Hulley View Post
Bl00dy unbelievable, isn't it!
The British press and its researchers at their best.
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Oddly enough I do a fair amount of freelance work for the Daily Mail and live within 400 yards of their offices. It's hard to imagine their journalist even did a Wiki search before going live on this subject...Comment
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Originally posted by Basil View Post
Hi Adrian, your use of the word 'journalist' is in the loosest possible definition in this instance After all the only real difference between The Mail and the red tops is page 3 
I trust you'll be advising the Editor of this 1/10 effort from his teaboy ?
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Adrian, your books on the topic are first class. Astonished the Daily Malicious didn't run it by you!Comment
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It doesn't...and it is quite possible that the image shown has nothing to do with the actual auction.Originally posted by J-W.Bode View PostComment
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Quite. The image in the DM looks like a bad photocopy from a reference book..So - untill we see the actual photo and hear what the provenance (if any) is, the jury remains out - however unlikely it is that a genuine BFC tab has surfaced.Originally posted by J C Gray View Post
BTW - the tab reflects the image I believe, of three leopards - not lions.
cheers
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True...ish, In Heraldry, the term 'Lion' or 'Lyon' was originally meant to distinguish the beast as being 'Rampant' (Rearing up on the near hind leg) as opposed to 'Passant Guardant' ( Walking with head looking towards the viewer). Although the heralds of old were actually referring to the same Heraldic Beast, when it was shown in the latter form, it was blazoned as a 'Leopard', 'Lupard' or 'Lupar'. These distinctions were really only used in the very early stages of heraldry and the term 'Lion' is now used ambiguously.Originally posted by TomH View Post
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Wasn't there another one within the last year also auctioned somewhere in UK?Comment
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This is the one I remembered, I think we had a thread on it. They are indeed "fantastic" in the true sense of the word.
http://www.petrirelics.mpgunworks.com/sscollartabs.htmComment
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I recall back in the mid-1980s Manions sold an "officers" one ....NEC SOLI CEDITComment
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Yes, I remember that too, the highest ranking man in BF I believe was a Unterscharfuhrer? They may have made them as probes etc. but. . . .Originally posted by stonemint View PostComment
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Adrian.Originally posted by Basil View Post
Any chance of tossing a bomb through their letterbox in the passing?
Just for me.
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Robin... and you a respected law enforcement officer too!Originally posted by Robin Lumsden View PostAdrian.
Any chance of tossing a bomb through their letterbox in the passing?
Just for me.
Here is a link to the auction catalogue http://www.mullocksauctions.co.uk/Ca..._lot0220-0.jpg
So it is the same tab depicted in the article.
As a general point, a real BFC tab would have a much shorter 'body' on the leopard and the upper forearm is much longer. There is a reasonably well known portrait photograph of a member in the UK National Archives which shows the tab relatively clearly, but the original of Alex Dolezalek's 'SS Map' of Feb 45 also seems to show an accurate drawing of what the tab really looked like (albeit in reversed 'black on white'). I had some repros made up by Cyrus Lee for a TV film I made about the BFC which I think were closer in look than any of the other repros.
There may be some original BFC insignia in existence but I haven't seen any in the 30-odd years I've been looking.Comment
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