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  |date        =19 Jan 2012, 16:41
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  |post        =An assortment of Victorian Border Regiment letterheads.
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  |post        =These are particularly interesting. Where did you get them from?
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  |date        =20 Jan 2012, 12:07
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  |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).
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  |date        =27 Apr 2012, 11:05
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  |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).
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  |date        =13 Jan 2013, 11:49
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  |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]].
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  |date        =13 Jan 2013, 13:10
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  |post        =Really nice to see these, thanks for sharing them Paul,<br>Kind regards,<br>Scottie.
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