Metropolitan Asylums Board Staff Badge
A rare buttonhole back badge for the Metropolitan Asylums Board.The MAB operated between 1867 and 1930 and in many respects was the precursor to the NHS operating Hospitals for the "sick poor",Isolation and TB Hospitals ,Mental Hospitals as well as Ambulance Services in the capital.Many of their hospitals were taken on by the London County Council in April of 1930.
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British Association of Critical care Nurses,Members badge
An enamelled base metal badge for the BACCN.It features their logo of a map of the UK with a Cardiac Rhythm trace imposed on top.The title British Association of Critical Care Nurses appears on a navy band to the edge.Condition good,pin and clasp good.Unmarked to rear.Height 32mm read more
Registered Medical Auxiliary,Operating Theatre Technician
A base metal and enamel badge for what I believe was the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine.This one is for the Registered Medical Auxiliary ,Operating Theatre Technician. Good condition with pin and clasp good.Numbered 5389 to rear.Height 33mm read more read more
Certified Midwife Badge,Grey metal suspension type with chord
An original early Midwives badge with Certified Midwife wording ,from the 1920s Generally in good condition with most of its original plated finish intact. It features it's original Neck chord and is named to M M Baldwin 21.6.15. A popular badge in very good condition barring some surface rubbing to plated finish.Height 50mm
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British Airways Medical Services,Nurses badge bronzed metal
A bronzed base metal badge for the British Airways Medical Service.This version postdates the earlier BOAC/BEA versions when the companies merged to create BA in 1974.
The badge has a central motif of a rod of Asclepius on a red background. British Airways Medical Service appears on a blue band around the edge.This is topped by an astral crown.
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British Airways Medical Services,Nurses badge chrome
A base metal chromed badge for the British Airways Medical Service.This version postdates the earlier BOAC/BEA versions when the companies merged to create BA in 1974.
The badge has a central motif of a rod of Asclepius on a red background. British Airways Medical Service appears on a blue band around the edge.This is topped by an astral crown.
Makers mark for Manhattan Windso... read more
Royal College of Nursing 1939-46 and Commemorative Centenary badges
An original members badge for the Royal College of Nursing,of the pattern issued during the wartime years 1939-46.In white metal with the intertwined letters RCN topped by the King's Crown.It retains it's pin and clasp and is marked for the maker J R Gaunt London.It bears the membership number 57447.
2016 saw the college celebrate it's centenary and it issued this commemorative ... read more
National Union of Trained Nurses,silver members badge
A rare silver and enamel pendant badge for the Nation Union of Trained Nurses.Originally formed as the Nurses Social Union to promote the development of professional nursing through lectures and exhibitions prior to the First World War.It changed it's title to the NUTN in 1913 and was one of the diverse nursing groups which was seen as a rival to the College of Nursing upon it's formation in 19... read more
Confederation of Health Service Employees(COHSE) Steward /Health & Safety Representative Badges
A pair of activist badges for the Trade Union COHSE prior to its demise and absorption into Unison in 1993.The badges both feature the members badge to the centre, on a red background with Steward, or a green background with Health & Safety Representative.Both in good condition with pin and clasp intact.Marked for Fattorin.Height 31mm read more
20.00 GBP
National Aslum Workers Union/COHSE 1992 commemorative badge
A commemorative badge issued in 1992/93 to celebrate the National Asylum Workers Union and its successor the Confederation of Health Service Employees for 82 years of Caring from 1910 to 1992.COHSE would be amalgamated into the new union Unison which was launched in July 1993.
The design features the original badge design of the NAWU.Good overall condition with pin and clasp intact.Maker... read more