Another bucket list find for my Farrier/Veterinary Corps/Veterinarian US Army insignia collection.  This one came from this weekend's 2026 ASMIC Annual Military Show.  The gentleman I purchased this from was selling part of his collection from over 40 plus years of collecting.  He definitely had some interesting and scare insignia available.    This is a WW1 Farrier collar disc with the thin horseshoe and wide V. I have seen some of restrikes/repros from Naugatuck Novelty Company with the thick horseshoe, thin V, and distinctive raised hump around the screw-post (I have a few in my collection) but have not seen this variation in person prior to this weekend. This insignia appears to be authentic and matches the detail in The Collar Disk Story by Scipio (pg. 115, Plate 14, 12).  I have added that image to this post for comparison. I know there is controversy if these were worn, but I have also added an image of a WW1 Soldier who appears to be wearing the disc from portraitofwar.com to keep a grouping of information together on this forum.      

Apparently joined Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and stayed in RAF until 1927 ( sorry not WW2 )

Also following on from recent money topics I picked up this French Franc that had been re purposed as an I.D. Tag for a member of the RAF.  Not done any research yet into the name and number on the tag, I say a tag, it hasn't been given a hole to hang it on anything so could be a sweetheart type item.........

Finally had some time to take pictures of some of my other sweetheart items.

So yet another early 5am start for the flea market. This time I did really well and didn't buy any wooden airplanes. I only bought an old early brass model and a wooden tank

Really happy to have found my own Moatengators patch as the ASMIC Convention this year. Everyone has discussed the regular Airborne units it was used by but no one seems to have mentioned it was also used (perhaps unofficially) by a 7th SFG ODA in Panama.

Picked up at local flea market today.   Cap badge is small, 2 1/4 x 2 1/4.  I’m thinking it might be a WAC badge?     

The flea market was very kind to me today, 8-m1 liners from the 80s 2-m1 liners from Vietnam 6- 80s nape straps 4- 80s neck straps 1-80s leather sweatband 1-80s para chinstrap 5-m1 Garand emblocks 1- 1944 dated grenade launcher sight 2- German wound bandages 1-whermacht cheveron 1-SS cheveron ( yes legit) Luger shoulder stock(1920s commercial) Air corps jacket with dog tag chain around patch Unknown( interwar?) jacket with felt 24th patch  

Hi,   I have been looking into acquiring a tiger stripe shirt. I am torn between gettibg a commercial one from the 1980s and reworking it (moving the hip pockets up to the chest) or getting a used one made by Pike Brothers. The Pike Brothers one is the silver pattern, whereas the commercial ones are the, well... Commercial tiger stripe pattern... What are your opinions on Pike Brothers' repros? I would want to wear it out and about and not for reenacting. What are your thoughts?   Cheers, Jules   PS: I attached the shirts I am unsure about... The first one is a "ranger" commercial, the second one a commercial with a USMC label for whatever reason and the third is the Pike one...

French Nieuport 17. Looks real to me.