Direct from the garden shed of a notorious shyster in the Midlands is this piece of utter garbage. The huckster in question has been knocking up variations of this "IB-fin-in-a-plank" for quite a while. Previously, we've had the same with wording relating to the Coventry Blitz (sometimes it's a little type-written note glued on). Given the number of items he's made I'm surprised his letter stamping hasn't improved but clearly he learns very slowly (off centre, misaligned etc etc).
If you were unfortunately conned by this shyster on eBay, send the crap back to him.
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Doing the rounds again are these fake SCOUT ARP armbands. Sold on eBay by a notorious shyster in the Midlands, he's being flogging these pieces of crap onto unsuspecting collectors for a while. This utter tosser uses a number of aliases on eBay to sell his forgeries. He was also responsible, at one time, for a large number of fake enamel ARP badges but it appears he's not listing those currently (hopefully because this site lists all the known forgeries...). The badges do, however, still creep onto auction sites as "original".
eBay itself it partly to blame, also. Whilst they have put money and effort into validating certain watch brands and (of all things) collectible trainers (yes 'sneakers'), they never cover the veritable plethora of faked (and very expansive) militaria on its site. I suppose it was only a matter of time, but proof has arrived that the common ARP badge (often hallmarked but also base metal versions from early war period were manufactured) are now being faked/reproduced. This example was recently sent to me from New Zealand. The badge has many of the similarities found on other fake ARP badges, especially the rear of the badge and the pin and catch. Quite why this ARP badge has been faked escapes me as it is easily obtainable and not all that expensive.
Direct from the shed of a well-known shyster is this utter piece of garbage currently on the tat bazaar. A complete work of fiction is has whitewash MHS letters for Ministry of Home Security and a spurious diamond above (diamonds were used on Warden helmets). Run a bit of sandpaper over the helmet and Robert is your mother's brother. Again, more clueless punters parting with their hard-earned for made up rubbish. For the love of Mary, buy a book, join a forum, read Facebook's fake militaria groups.
We've seen this fake London Transport badge before. It appeared on a Zuckerman helmet and also as a plain badge but here we have it with blue "enamel". It has the common rear associated with all fake ARP badges.
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