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Started by cutiger83 , Oct 13 2012 07:41 AM

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#1 cutiger83

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Posted 13 October 2012 - 07:41 AM

One small item I like to collect is USMC honorable discharge buttons. They vary according to EGA, button on back, and in other ways. Here are the few I have collected so far.

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Posted 13 October 2012 - 07:43 AM

Here are the backs. The pin back version has an NS Meyer Hallmark
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Posted 13 October 2012 - 07:45 AM

This is a 1930's variety with a droop wing.
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Posted 13 October 2012 - 07:46 AM

Here is another close-up of one
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Posted 13 October 2012 - 07:48 AM

One more close-up
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Posted 13 October 2012 - 08:04 AM

nice pins. The pinbacks were generally issued to females who don't tend to have button holes on their lapels. I, too, hold onto these when I get a variant. Think I have 7 or 8, will have to check if any are different than yours and post them here. There are actually quite a few variants, and some can bring 20-30 bucks each, if not more, at auction

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Posted 13 October 2012 - 02:56 PM

The pinbacks were generally issued to females who don't tend to have button holes on their lapels.


Brig,

I did not know the pin back were for women. Thanks for the info!

Also, thanks for the new one in my collection! ;)

...Kat

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Posted 14 October 2012 - 04:45 AM

interesting start of a USMC pin collection, look forward to seeing ,ore as you acquire them!

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Posted 14 October 2012 - 06:44 AM

Nice collection sir.

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Posted 14 October 2012 - 07:25 AM

Very nice Kat!
Didn't know of the many variations!

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Posted 15 October 2012 - 07:02 AM

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. I can't afford helmets and other high priced items so I LOVE little USMC items like this.
It is interesting trying to find variations.

Thanks again....Kat

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Posted 19 October 2012 - 02:34 PM

here are some of mine, as promised, minus one I got in today. One of the typical WWII ones is marked AE Co Utica, and the Reserve is marked Bastian Brothers

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Posted 19 October 2012 - 02:35 PM

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Posted 19 October 2012 - 05:43 PM

Great thread and pictures. Kat and Brig, Thanks for posting. I will see if I have any different ones an eventually post them.

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Posted 19 October 2012 - 05:57 PM

I would imagine that there is a pin back that is Pink.

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Posted 19 October 2012 - 06:40 PM

I would imagine that there is a pin back that is Pink.


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Posted 19 October 2012 - 06:42 PM

Kat,

Always great to see another angle on collecting.

I never imagined there were variations to these pins.

Thank you for waking me up.

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Posted 20 October 2012 - 05:12 AM

I would imagine that there is a pin back that is Pink.

Why would you imagine that?
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