The first badge shown by Paddy at the start of this thread is one of the current LB&B badges issued to WOs. Rather nice and with a diamond effect, struck in frosted silvered metal. The other two look like the less spectacular White metal issued WOs badges. The way to tell older badges apart is that the Officers badges were silver or silver plate and had silver lugs whereas the WOs badges were Wm with copper lugs (this applies to 95% of older badges, some Offr SP badges came on copper lugs). As the badges are often well polished even the Wm badges appear almost like SP.
Andy
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