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    I have a collection of MN Cap Badges but am struggling to identify the shipping line for for some so any help appreciated. The one wiht the anchor in the middle of a sunburst couldbe Naval but unsure about that.

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    Not all of them maybe British MN badges, most companies in the past had their own liveries, including Foreign MN.

    The one with the red triangle could be Temple Hall S S Co.as seems to ring a bell, but old age oft makes for errors!!

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    Not Temple Hall, their triangle was point up. The two badges with Kings Crowns must at least be British or Commonwealth.

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    Not saying is or isnt, but the two with Crowns possibly are Merchant Navy Badges, however the others could well be from either Airline, or Railway ????
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    #3.. Ron if the red triangle was a red heart , it could of been anyone’s milkman. I was on the Temple Hall in 1976 , didn’t even know they had a cap badge. The company was run by Whitco, now they had a cap badge also uniforms in grey material issued free gratis. The one with silver oak leaves ,don’t think have ever seen a Seamans badge with such , maybe the GL stands for good living and is an advert for British Airways. The one with BS maybe stands for Butterfield and Swires there are ex China hands on site they may know. The bottom one looks like you would expect the Hong Kong harbour police of old to wear. JS
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    Think this is the Swires Cap Badge JS or (China Steam Navigation Company)
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    As you know when a shipping company had its own livery , I prefer that term rather than uniform, as there is only one official British Merchant Navy uniform. The buttons etc were also of a company design also. Part of the obligatory gear of going to sea as a Runciman apprentice was their livery which consisted of the usual laurel leaves and a pilot jack , white with a blue R on. The buttons were the same. The first thing I did on finishing my time was to rid myself of same and when could afford buy the correct uniform of the MN. The only time I would wear otherwise was if the company supplied . I saw no need to advertise for them at my own expense. Cheers JS.
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    When joining NZSC I had to BUY buttons with the company livery on them.
    Only ones I can remember as such.
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    Hi John,

    When I bought my first and only uniform as an Engineer Cadet with P & O circa 1978 I visited a place in Fenchurch Street and they found a set of P & O 'rising sun' buttons for me. I thought they would stand out from the standard MN buttons and happily paid for them. As an Engineer the most use I got out of that jacket was when I got married in 1986. I still have it (and my hat, complete with P & O badge) but I need to lose a few pounds to fit into it!

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    Eric I live in a retirement village for Australian Airforce types , not naval types but they also have their share of them. Every Friday night they have a theme night and the almost a year I have been here they have had a theme of the Captains Table and have borrowed various articles from different naval types here in the village. Like you mine has shrunk but made it available for the staff to get dressed up. Needless to say I didn’t go to dinner on those two occasions I didn’t want to get seasick ? However your brass buttons being P and O would have been more appropriate for the Occassion and probably more recognisable by some of the old widows who doubtless spent their money as passengers seeing the world, that’s if their husbands left them any . Cheers JS
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