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[Dark Alley Dan]

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Skink!

 

[bdft]

My mother in law has been moved into assisted living now and my wife and I were cleaning out her house over the last week. The house used to belong to my grand-mother-in-law if that's the correct term (my wife's grandparents). In a basement storage room I luckily spotted these in a box that was destined for the landfill so they came home with me instead. My wife or her dad didn't recognize the name on the WW1 era dog tags. As per Google Lens the badges are WW1 era Canadian Expeditionary Force cap badges?

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Maybe Grandma was "supporting the troops" and collecting cap badges.

 

[XRCD011]

Dont ever loose those. They will tell a story if you do some research.

Solid advice right there.

 

[4star60]

My mother in law has been moved into assisted living now and my wife and I were cleaning out her house over the last week. The house used to belong to my grand-mother-in-law if that's the correct term (my wife's grandparents). In a basement storage room I luckily spotted these in a box that was destined for the landfill so they came home with me instead. My wife or her dad didn't recognize the name on the WW1 era dog tags. As per Google Lens the badges are WW1 era Canadian Expeditionary Force cap badges?

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Stuff such as that was found in boxes at garage sales years ago along with hand tools.

 

[woodchopper]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

XF-12 Rainbow! Streamlining and then some. Just too late.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

 

[*lawrence]

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From Tintin 'The Red Sea Sharks'

 

[tokguy]

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From Tintin 'The Red Sea Sharks'

Was the comic that made the Skeeter my favorite.
Neat to see it again

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I don't think DH ever made an ugly airplane. Here's what happens when you run a Mosquito through the dryer:

 

[XRCD011]

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It blows my mind that Canada built 1,033(+-) of these in the Second World War..............yet now it took decades to get a new pistol in troops hands. And mon dieu what is with that sign not being in both official languages, and three white males standing there ??

 

[bdft]

Swannell's survey expedition into the BC interior circa 1913. Government issue rifles or civilian models? They look like Lee Enfield No. 1s. The bush was so thick in the BC interior that horses couldn't be used. Pack dogs were used extensively and everyone walked. This particular expedition covered 1700 miles that summer.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Pictures you can smell...

That's very cool - thanks for showing us. One of the resident Enfieldologists will doubtless be along shortly. They're handy looking variants - carbine length, short mags. Interesting that all three are "heeled". Guess they were expecting trouble.

 

[rhino519]

Lee Metford? but the muzzle looks “wrong”, shorter

 

[bdft]

That's why I wondered if they were commercial variants. They were probably expecting to run into bear and lots of moose, deer, elk and caribou. I imagine they ate well.

 

[JP]

Lee Enfield MK I carbines with cleaning rods.

 

[woodchopper]

Yup enfield carbines.

And I've worked in BC forest, they can be thick and the terrain steep.

 

[B_noser]

Cavalry carbines - likely Enfield Mk 1. Still have clearing rods. Gun on left appears to have some sort of windage adjustable rear sight and the stock has been cut back on the one on the right. The front sight ears on the ones on left and center don't look quite right.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Cavalry carbines - likely Enfield Mk 1. Still have clearing rods. Gun on left appears to have some sort of windage adjustable rear sight and the stock has been cut back on the one on the right. The front sight ears on the ones on left and center don't look quite right.

Guy on the right looks like he has some kind of Mauser carbine. In the Whyte museum in Banff is local legend Bill Peyto's rifle, appears to be like one of these Enfields,

 

[B_noser]

G A is probably correct. On second look, top wood is not correct for an LEC.