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Car Boot Part 4 10 Cap Badges. Lost of them.


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#1 ATNOMIS

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 07:14 PM

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 07:24 PM

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 08:16 PM

All good; especially good finds are the early pattern (Victorian) Royal Fusiliers badge (the one on the right) and the maker marked Devons.

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 08:26 PM

View PostStaffsyeoman, on 27 May 2012 - 08:16 PM, said:

All good; especially good finds are the early pattern (Victorian) Royal Fusiliers badge (the one on the right) and the maker marked Devons.

Thank you. Never been so lucky. Bargin at £20.

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 10:54 PM

View PostATNOMIS, on 27 May 2012 - 08:26 PM, said:

Thank you. Never been so lucky. Bargin at £20.

Simon

I am staggered, they are fantastic at that price.  I especially like the Royal Fusiliers Victorian pattern and the first pattern Welsh Guards with solid back, later versions had a stamped indentation at rear and so were thinner and much more flimsy.

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 10:03 PM

Nice collection indeed!
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Posted 07 June 2012 - 05:47 PM

The Royal Fusilers badges are both post 1906.  It was in that year that the WD introduced short sliders.  While Volunteer Bns and yeomanry often had sliders before this date, regualr Army badges did not as they were oredered using sealed patterns.

The second one is not Victorian (if it was pre 1901 then it would have been lugged) but a slidered collar badge.  I suggest that is was slidered for us on a side cap.  A rare badge as it is commonly found with lugs for wear on collars.  Why someone went to the trouble and expense of ordering slidered badges when lugged ones were availalble is not clear!

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Posted 07 June 2012 - 06:18 PM

I always understood that the RF collar badge with slider was worn in the Broderick cap.

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Posted 07 June 2012 - 07:32 PM

Possibly it was.  Can any date its use - 1904-8 ish?

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:46 AM

A lovely collection. Thanks for showing them. It's great to see original untouched examples.

John