London Hospital Badge

[barrysutton]

Oh I'm so glad I don't collect London nurses/hospital badges other than Military and fortunately apart from some Naval ones I have examples of all the others.

[myk1066]

£71 & £77 for the London Hospital Enrolled Nurse & RN badges, bargains in terms of what the have been going for.

[myk1066]

Oh & another LH gone on but no EN version, must have sold all the EN ones!

[myk1066]

£77 already for the RN LH.  I've a spare for swaps if anyone is interested?

[Magpie]

Hi MYK 1066
Please can you contact me again re swaps for your badge? I did try to respond to your previous message twice but didn't work. My email address is on my profile. Thank you. Rosemary

[myk1066]

A nice set of the 2 LH badges just gone in ebay, it's like a never ending story!

[myk1066]

Hi all
The original seller of the LH badges has sold me a few more LH badges.  Is anyone interested in doing swaps for badges I do not have in my collection?
Mike

[myk1066]

£24.00 for starters for the latest one that's gone on tonight!

[myk1066]

The price is rising, how much do you think it will go for?  I have the same badge to swap if anyone is interested!

[myk1066]

I think the market price is dropping, £56 the last new unissued badge went for!

[nursesue]

am wondering how many there are left  ??? someone got a good price

[myk1066]

The seller sold me a few that I'm going to use for swaps so who knows how many are left out there!

[myk1066]

I also have the EN version to swap, anyone interested?

[myk1066]

The latest LH that's on fleece, is it one of the new unissued ones do we think?  Currently on at £21.

[backman]

To be honest,other than the fact it gives some collectors an opportunity to acquire a badge that might normally be too costly for them,I'll be glad to see an end to these.If I were the vendor I might decide to hold any residual stock until the market settles and new collectors come on line.
I would much rather see other badges come out of the back of granny's drawers.There are still a lot of LCC badges hidden out there and looking at the number of prize badges awarded via articles in Nursing journals of the day,a fair number of gold ones.I had another dealer tell me that he had sent a Gold Bristol Royal Infirmary medal for met down recently as he didn't think anyone collected them!!!
Perhaps a mission this year is to raise the profile of the nursing badge and it's place in our history so that old forgotten badges can be released into the wild or at least identified and catalogued to be appreciated by the families of those nurses that earnt them?