Ireland 1949 (replica)

My Ireland section is woefully thin so to bump it up with a replica is a good move. Initially disappointed to find a replica I fired up eBay to find that that was exactly what I had bid upon!

This one is an Irish harp on a blue field with a green banner. It is deistinctive as a replica with its gold rather than silver metal and all in one modern style safety pin. The real giveaway are the words replica which are stamped upon it.

Maker unknown.

Ireland (Mosney) 1960

A double bonus on today's blog entry. This is a 1960 Ireland badge, my only badge from Ireland and as I found out one I hadn’t logged on my “Big list o’ badges”. Ireland seems to be oddly rare in the world of Butlins, odd because it seems to have been a popular camp with lots of colour variation in the latter years. Maybe I should start trawling ebay.ie? This badge was produced (aptly enough) by the Jewellery Metal Co. of Dublin.