Poppies at The Tower of London

[Phil Wood]

And what about these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOWER-OF-LONDON-CERAMIC-POPPY-REPLICA-/112201525743?hash=item1a1fbb69ef:g:dJ8AAOSw-kdXxpu2?

 

 

 

[Neil Mackenzie]

12 hours ago, towisuk said:

I'm sure the lads scattered in the battlefields are sleeping better under the sod, realising their sacrifice means there's a nice little profit for in it for someone ..even a hundred years later...!

 

Following that logic then you presumably don't agree with people using research services, buying books on the Great War or going on tours to the battlefields. All the people who provide those services are making money out of the Great War.

 

Neil

[Dragon]

1 hour ago, Phil Wood said:

 

Why should ebay bar people from selling a second-hand poppy?   

 

Because... in  the words of Ebay:

 

"We are not permitting resale of the limited edition Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red ceramic poppies on eBay. Any listings attempting to sell these items will be cancelled before any sale takes place. Our marketplace is not an appropriate venue for the limited edition ceramic poppies in view of the significance of each individual poppy as a memorial to an individual British military fatality."

 

Gwyn

[SiegeGunner]

As a professional translator specialising in 20th century military history, I make money out of the Great War.  I have also made money out of WW2 and even the Holocaust.  I see no reason whatever to feel uncomfortable about that.  On the contrary, in fact, as I think that my work, over 30+ years, has helped many people to better understand elements of the history of those conflicts that would otherwise have been inaccessible to them.

 

Mick

[Dragon]

It has, and so has the generous use of your skills numerous times on this forum and in private.

 

I recently commissioned Fourteeneighteen Research to do some work for me and I was very happy to pay. I don't have the skills or knowledge to carry out research as efficiently as someone who knows exactly what he's doing and the cost of travelling from here to London would have been astronomical in comparison.

 

I don't see where there is an ethical issue as long as the charges or profits are proportionate.

 

Gwyn

 

Edit. PS Chris's company did a great job too.

Edited 15 November , 2016 by Dragon

[Moonraker]

Global search to trace poppies

 

I wonder what response there'll be?

 

Moonraker

[Michelle Young]

I found one in a cemetery earlier this year, not unusual , I've seen plenty on graves. Sadly this one had fallen apart. 

 

Michelle 

 

[Guest]

Philip Schofield launches a Global search to trace poppies from Tower of London installation. Click

 

What's the point?

 

Mike

[stevem49]

There are loads in Cardiff at the moment  

 

[Moonraker]

Poppies sculptures to be installed in London and Manchester.

And various other news sites.

 

Moonraker