Continental (?) Fouled Anchor Navy Cap Badge
 

Ditto: a possibly continental (?) Fouled Anchor Navy cap badge that has come with a small lot of WW2 badges. Not even sure is military or civil... Any hints, gents?

French, I believe

That's what I was thinking - for the sun helmet?

The plastic sun helmet badge is slightly different in detail.

Rgds, Thomas.

I was thinking of an earlier than plastic + was it not produced in brass?

I suppose it was made in metal before the plastic version, However the grist of my post is that earlier I did hesitate identifying it as French due to those minor differences. The plastic badge has the stock curved upwards and the cord is curved differently.

Rgds, Thomas.

Not a very helpful photo as it merely shows that the badge in question is not the one used on the French M26 helmet & variously identified as French Colonial troops or French Marines.
I post it simply because I dug it out of my collection to check.

For what it's worth, my version.
Thin brass, once silvered. Brooch pin. 43mm long.
At back: 'CZECHOSLOVAKIA'

GTB

Odd, with Czechoslovakia being landlocked. And English spelling instead of Chech?

Rgds, Thomas.

Thomas,

Google Czechoslovakian Naval Forces.

Actually, the whole back inscription running up the anchor is 'CZECHOSLOVAKIA No.308'

GTB

As an Airforce and later, a "Gunner" type, I realize I'm sticking my neck out here. Does the first post actually show a "fouled" anchor? I see the anchor laid ON the rope, not as in the other posts, "fouled" by the rope. Too picky? Best regards, D.J.

Good point, I wonder if the arrangement is known by a different term?

I would suppose that an anchor with rope or chain entangled is a 'fouled' anchor, with chain or rope hanging freely is an 'unfouled' anchor, and lacking a chain or rope is simply an anchor

GTB

So the anchor in question is actually an "unfouled anchor", rather than a fouled anchor.

I would go with that but I am no expert on nautical affairs. I think the question may even be a Heraldic one.

GTB