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Line 1: {{Forum-archive-header}} {{Forum-archive-post \|name ={{[[plbramham}}]] \|date =19 Jan 2012, 16:41 \|avatar ={{plbramham}} \|post =An assortment of Victorian Border Regiment letterheads. <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left"> Line 16 ⟶ 17: {{Forum-archive-post \|name ={{[[kerchi}}]] \|date =20 Jan 2012, 00:35 \|avatar ={{plbramham}} \|post =These are particularly interesting. Where did you get them from? }} {{Forum-archive-post \|name ={{[[plbramham}}]] \|date =20 Jan 2012, 12:07 \|avatar ={{plbramham}} \|post =They were in a large Edwardian scrapbook album which was being broken up that contained hundreds of Victorian/Edwardian military letterhead crests. Apparently there was a trend about the time of The Boer War of collecting military crests - a bit like stamp collecting. I got the Border/55th/ and Lancs. artillery items (no 34th with them). }} {{Forum-archive-post \|name ={{[[plbramham}}]] \|date =27 Apr 2012, 11:05 \|avatar ={{plbramham}} \|post =1st Battalion King's Owns Royal (Lancaster) Regiment Victorian letterhead crest (King's Own amalgamated with Border Regiment to become the King's Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959). <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left"> Line 37 ⟶ 41: {{Forum-archive-post \|name ={{[[plbramham}}]] \|date =13 Jan 2013, 11:49 \|avatar ={{plbramham}} \|post =Victorian/Edwardian letterhead crests for the 1st & 2nd battalions The Border Regiment.<br> Following the amalgamation in 1881 of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmoreland) Regiment of Foot to form The [[Border Regiment]], the [[1st Border Regiment]] continued to also use the designation number 34, and the [[2nd Border Regiment]] the number 55. (See London Gazette July 1st 1881 page pasted below, and my other posting for [[Border Regiment buttons\|mess buttons]]. Line 53 ⟶ 58: {{Forum-archive-post \|name ={{[[CockneyTone}}]] \|date =13 Jan 2013, 13:10 \|avatar ={{CockneyTone}} \|post =Really nice to see these, thanks for sharing them Paul,<br>Kind regards,<br>Scottie. }} [[Category:Ephemera (forum archive)]] [[Category:The early years (forum archive)]]