RSPB pin badges

Lincs Yellowbelly · #1 (**permalink**) 16-10-2007, 09:23 PM

Hey all,

I've recently been building up my collection of RSPB pin badges, I usually pick up 2/3 whenever i go to a nature reserve

Anyhow, i'm looking for something to store them on, rather than them just being sat in a draw, can anybody recommend a site where i'll be able to buy something to store them on?

Thanks

hedgehog whisperer · #2 (**permalink**) 16-10-2007, 09:35 PM

Now I do not know what this says about me, but I have made a notice board out of corks from wine bottles, I pin all my badges to that. It hangs in my kitchen.

I do have many corks therefore have drunk a lot of wine,

but drinking good wine with corks in the bottles saves wildlife. That is what I tell myself anyway. LOL

pressld2 · #3 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 12:20 PM

Re-using old corks is a good idea and definitely green!

What about the stretched canvases you can buy already on a frame from art shops? Some bookshops and stationers are selling them these days too. They're not too expensive, come in a good range of sizes, are ready to hang and you can paint them any colour you like or just leave them white.

Dave P.

almostnormal · #4 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 01:23 PM

oh dear....well to own up, i have around 150 pin badges (not all rspb i hasten to add) until it got so that they wouldn't fit i used to stick them through the strap on my satchel, then on ribbons hanging off my pin board and then when that finally gave way under the weight i resorted to keeping them all in a bag.

however i reckon you could get a couple of those plastic bead storage efforts and upend it that might work? one badge per little compartment? and you could decorate it if you wanted to!

ther's a link o the sort of thing i mean below, but you can pick them up in model shops and craft shops all over the place!

GJ Beads - Storage box 27 x 19 x 4.5cm

Lincs Yellowbelly · #5 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 04:39 PM

I found these after posting last night

and have ordered one of the black ones

Badge display

Thanks for the replies though

Cazzie · #6 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 05:00 PM

My son has over 300 hundred pin badges now (yep, I've collected them for him!) but we put them on a compressed A4 foam sheet that I got from a craft shop and it works well (loadsa colours too). I put some eyelets into the top 2 corners and they can now be hung up in his room for display!

Lincs Yellowbelly · #7 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 10:21 PM

I've just been looking around on the net and there are tons of RSPB badges to collect, this is gonna cost me a fortune

at least the money is going to a worthy cause

Lincs Yellowbelly · #8 (**permalink**) 23-10-2007, 08:59 PM

Since deciding to start collecting these i've been a few places and seen none

sods law isn't it, off to Blacktoft tomorrow morning though so hopefully i'll be able to get a tenners worth and get the collection up and running

I've seen loads on Ebay but am very wary of giving money to people who may be making a profit out of a charity

goosey · #9 (**permalink**) 23-10-2007, 09:28 PM

Typical you can't get any now you have set your mind to it

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I started collecting them this summer when I was over in the Lakes, and had great fun picking out which I would buy every time I saw them. I only bought ones that held a special meaning of something I saw that holiday! It will be ages until I can get some more - but I can't wait - it's money well spent.
Hope you find some to buy soon!

Lincs Yellowbelly · #10 (**permalink**) 24-10-2007, 03:22 PM

Picked up 17 today at Blacktoft

goosey · #11 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly

Picked up 17 today at Blacktoft

Thats good - the RSPB will love you

. So which sort are you collecting, anything and everything or is there a method in your madness?
When we were at the osprey observation point at Bassenthwaite some people had theirs on their hats, I keep mine on the shoulder strap of my camera case -with pride

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Lincs Yellowbelly · #12 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by goosey

Thats good - the RSPB will love you

. So which sort are you collecting, anything and everything or is there a method in your madness?
When we were at the osprey observation point at Bassenthwaite some people had theirs on their hats, I keep mine on the shoulder strap of my camera case -with pride

.

Hi Goosey,

I keep mine in the case i've bought now, I'm afraid I couldn't bring myself to wonder around with them all over me

These are the ones I have so far

goosey · #13 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:15 AM

That is a really good idea -I think my daughter may fancy something like this she has all hers pinned to lengths of ribbon down the side of her book case to display.
So you will be itching to get out and get some more now

BTW, we only have 4 the same

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Lincs Yellowbelly · #14 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:29 AM

From now on i'm just gonna get them as and when I see them, I certainly won't be buying any off Ebay or anything like that

probably take a fiver when I go to a reserve each time

Scarlet Pimpernel · #15 (**permalink**) 31-10-2007, 08:23 AM

A very interesting thread Lincs....I used to collect these about 5 years ago but I seemed to be spending a lot of money everytime I went to a reserve! So in the end I stopped getting them! I didn't onlt collect the RSPB ones but the individual reserve ones and local authorities ones like the Norfolk Broads ones too and Abberton Reservoir!

I will have to dig them out...

Cheers Jacob

Gill Catton · #16 (**permalink**) 01-11-2007, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly

Hi Goosey,

I keep mine in the case i've bought now, I'm afraid I couldn't bring myself to wonder around with them all over me

These are the ones I have so far

you have a peregrine!!! I don't have a peregrine! I didn't know there was a peregrine!!

Lincs Yellowbelly · #17 (**permalink**) 01-11-2007, 05:24 PM

I snapped that one up pretty quick Gill

waterside26 · #18 (**permalink**) 19-03-2008, 01:19 PM

Hi
ive been collecting the badges for a while and have them all stored in a pin badge case i bought from ebay. it holds up to 500 badges at a time so ive got my work cut out filling it!

does anybody know where i can get a complete list of the rspb pin badges that are available - so i can get a rough idea of how many i still need to get!

Adam Cheeseman · #19 (**permalink**) 19-03-2008, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly

Hey all,

I've recently been building up my collection of RSPB pin badges, I usually pick up 2/3 whenever i go to a nature reserve

Anyhow, i'm looking for something to store them on, rather than them just being sat in a draw, can anybody recommend a site where i'll be able to buy something to store them on?

Thanks

When my cousin was in the brownies she put all her cloth and metal badges on a small square-ish blanket and pinned it to the wall.

Cheers,

Adam

muckshifter · #20 (**permalink**) 19-03-2008, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by waterside26

Hi
ive been collecting the badges for a while and have them all stored in a pin badge case i bought from ebay. it holds up to 500 badges at a time so ive got my work cut out filling it!

does anybody know where i can get a complete list of the rspb pin badges that are available - so i can get a rough idea of how many i still need to get!

You need a bigger badge case ...

http://uk.sitestat.com/rspb/website/...pe=pdf&ns_url=[]Page not found

I've just started collecting ... only got 3

... gotta start sometime. My hope is to have enough to stop me hat blowing off.