To solve this
problem a cotton khaki tag was chosen late 1913, 8 till
Slowly the
troops got a name besides the number and that was also put on the nametag. |
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After 1915, when the NPO and the NPB were merged to the
NPV, “N.P.V. afd. ……. (name of the department)” came after the number of the
troop. After 1920 when the cubs and rovers joined “troep” (troop) was changed
into “groep” (group). |
After forming Districts, the word “afd.” disappeared, leaving
just the name of the town with perhaps a Group number.
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The PVN (1932-1937) used a tag
with “P.V.N. - afd. …” under the tag with the name of the troop. |
In the fifties some variety in letters and colour of
the letters occurred. |
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In the beginning the KV (Catholic boy scouts)
initially used khaki tags, but later on they used greyish tags with mostly
black letters, just with the name of the Group and the town of the Group on
it . |
Sea scouts wore dark blue tags, mostly with white
letters. |
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In contradiction to the boys, where the name of the
Group came first and under it the name of the department, the girls wore separate
tags with the name of the department above the tags with the name of the Group.
Until 1933 it said “N.M.G. afd. ….”, after that “N.P.G. afd. …”.
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The girl scouts and pioneers wore dark blue tags
with white letters. |
Brown tags with dark brown letters were worn by
Brownies. |
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The girls of the NGB (Catholic Girl Guides) wore
dark blue tags with just the name of the Group and the name of the town, just
as the girls of the NPG. |
After the merge of the four different Scouting
Associations in 1973 everyone wears nylon tags. There is a large variety of
colors for both the tags and the text on it and nowadays it’s also possible
to put the sign of Scouting Nederland on the tags. |
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Besides Group name tags several other name tags were
emitted like tags for jubilees, activities, districts. etc.
The
museum is always interested in "old" Dutch scouting stuff.
Are you considering removing your old stuff, please contact us.