Three small groups Span-Am USMC Airborne

[manayunkman]

It was a good day to hunt because I also acquired a 1934 Hitler signed photo.

 

The Airborne group consists of four officers garrison caps with no ID.

 

They appear to be late 40s post war.

[manayunkman]

The second group is from an unknown Marine who served in the first Marine division in Korea with a collection of insignia that, besides the EGA, are manufactured in ROK.

[manayunkman]

But my favorite small group is from Robert Burns a Spanish American War veteran who served in Porto Rico.

 

The Spanish Campaign medal has the same number that is on the box.

 

He also earned a 25 year service pin from the railroad he worked for.

 

The collection was mounted in this frame sometime ago and I think it looks very nice there.

[atb]

Is the PR Occupation Medal numbered as well?

[manayunkman]

1 hour ago, atb said:

Is the PR Occupation Medal numbered as well?

Yes it is.

[Ivydiv]

The Span/Am grouping is amazing. What a piece of History. Thanks for posting it. Dave

[manayunkman]

14 minutes ago, Ivydiv said:

The Span/Am grouping is amazing. What a piece of History. Thanks for posting it. Dave

It was my pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.

 

It’s groups like these that really keep me going.

 

I love groups.

[aerialbridge]

That Bobby Burns group with the pic is a find, and what a name.    You lucked out.   Do you know what railroad he worked for and what he did?  

“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.”

[manayunkman]

26 minutes ago, aerialbridge said:

That Bobby Burns group with the pic is a find, and what a name.    You lucked out.   Do you know what railroad he worked for and what he did?  

“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.”

Here is his RR lapel button 

 

 

[manayunkman]

Kentucky Indiana Terminal Railroad.

[aerialbridge]

That has to be a rare pin.  I like railroad related veteran items.  My grampa, the sailor in my avatar,  was with the CMStP&P, aka Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, aka  Milwaukee Road for 45 years. 

[manayunkman]

22 minutes ago, aerialbridge said:

That has to be a rare pin.  I like railroad related veteran items.  My grampa, the sailor in my avatar,  was with the CMStP&P, aka Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, aka  Milwaukee Road for 45 years. 

It might also be gold.

 

I don’t really want to open the frame up to find out.

[manayunkman]

3 hours ago, aerialbridge said:

That has to be a rare pin.  I like railroad related veteran items.  My grampa, the sailor in my avatar,  was with the CMStP&P, aka Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, aka  Milwaukee Road for 45 years. 

I never collected RR but have found and sold a lot of it over the years which lead to being interested in it.

 

My best find was a steamship trunk full of a Cumberland Valley RR conductor who started in 1880 and finished with the PRR after WW1 and my second best was a footed candy bowl that was from the Sandy Hook RR ferry boat line.