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Title: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: Mick B on May 12, 2014, 08:48:37 AM
The RCN watch

(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss355/Mick1916/rcnwatch.jpg) (http://s591.photobucket.com/user/Mick1916/media/rcnwatch.jpg.html)

(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss355/Mick1916/rcnbadge1.jpg) (http://s591.photobucket.com/user/Mick1916/media/rcnbadge1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: wilfb on May 12, 2014, 09:27:22 AM
No - it looks more like a bottle opener!!

But you could classify it as 'ephemera'....

Will.
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: Mick B on May 12, 2014, 10:47:13 AM
 :)
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: Magpie on May 12, 2014, 02:04:25 PM
Really don't like these plastic watches but I guess they are easy to wipe clean. Quite popular where I'm being nursed at present, just think they look a bit tacky.
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: Mick B on May 12, 2014, 02:53:39 PM
I also belong to a watch forum, last week on a short thread on nurses watches a member showed a picture of a nurses fob watch with the nurses name engraved at the top, he made what I thought was a throwaway remark about trying to contact the person, he found her by just googling the name. She had lost the watch during a house move and he later found it on ebay in a job lot.
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: Sarah Rogers on May 12, 2014, 03:04:57 PM
sorry to hear that you are being nursed at present Magpie- get well soon!
Sarah
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: nursesue on May 12, 2014, 10:00:32 PM
alas not my cup of tea but it may be an antique of the future
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: barrysutton on May 13, 2014, 04:30:39 PM
Well the oval badge at the top is alright but as for the rest.
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: Mick B on May 13, 2014, 05:25:46 PM
I just noticed something else, I took the pictures at the same time, so possibly I accidently touched the winder, I was abducted by aliens in that moment between shots or its kaput!
Title: Re: Does this count as a badge?
Post by: wilfb on May 13, 2014, 08:15:15 PM
Perhaps... But it is an unusual item and certainly worth noting.  In the way of the world it could become very sought-after in the not too distant future.

Will.