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 Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject: Anyone know what this is? |
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| Rich Valentine's site wrote: | Salvaged from a Junk Shop by Mick Bartholomew
Managed to save this band antique from being lost forever at the back of a junk shop. A good one to go in place of the football team picture as hopefully it will jog someone's memory or maybe the staff bands librarian as it seems to be a case for transporting music, or maybe our oppo's know better. Any history will be much appreciated.
http://www.exroyalmarinesbandsmen.net/case.htm
There are the initials "MG" cut into the leather and at the bottom "RM Band Corps". |
| Capt Tom Lambert wrote: |
My Dear Richard,
Well, what have we here? This is a juicy item indeed and will take an awful lot of detective work to unravel the mystery thereof. First of all, full marks to the chap that discovered it for being so
quick witted. I hope he is going to make a donation of it to the Band Room of the Corps Museum once it has been established just what it is.
I suppose it is just possible that someone with a very long memory might have the answer, but whether they actually get to see it or not is the problem. I've looked at it from many angles trying to work out what, in any case (any case, geddit!!!) it is not. Firstly, the size of it is not expressed in the picture, one can get a reasonable idea but I think it needs more than that. It looks as if it were made to be a stronghold room with those huge, protective corners and the practically unbreakable fibro material of the body itself.
It would be somewhat fanciful to imagine that it was built to carry any sort of documentation, scores etc, unless they happened to be the originals of the Shakespearean tragedies. It seems to me that the markings are just a little bit fanciful, I've never heard anything referred to as the R.M.Band Corps, at least as far as I can recall. RM Deal supposes that it originated there but why? The scratched initials MG might give a clue, not that they are obvious to the naked eye. Jimmy Green's wife was Margaret (I think) and she was very keen on the history of the band service. It would be interesting to know what the inside is like, covered or not, lined, I mean.
I suppose that nowhere is there any indication of the maker's name. I guess it wasn't made in China anyway. I think it may have been a protective carrier bag for half a dozen fifes. I will be very interested to hear what other bites you get from the readers. Major Alastair Donald who knows so much about the history of the Corps may have the answer. I will ask him. In the meantime you may just like to publish my response to see if it coincides with anyone else's thoughts.
Kindest Regards,
Tom |
Over to you guys...
RMB Deal Could be RM Barracks
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Well in for a penny..etc.. It just could be a flight case for a pair of Cymbals..If it is I only wish it had been drafted to Brize Norton in the early 70's when we were attacked by a pair of the bl***y things from the "luggage rack" on a Hercules.. ON MY FIRST EVER TRIP IN THE SKY..
Perhaps not, but certainly not blind, Peruvian, or in any way resembling a slipper sock, and I can't smell it from here..  |
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