Hi Martin
Here's a closer view of that 1915 badge (hopefully the correct one!).
I'll check later on but I think that it has had the letter ground off and the number re-stamped (the half moon has been really deformed).
Has anyone thought to look at the "font" that was used for these badges? You can see that some were quite small sized and others were bigger with serifs.
As someone with a little knowledge of workshop practice, I suspect that some of these numbers were placed into a "holder" to mark the badges and some (the renumbered ones?) were clearly marked using individual hand held punches (poor alignment, uneven spacing, etc.)
Moreover, some of the badges must have been placed in a specially made matrix, otherwise the badge wold have been badly deformed.
Just placing it on a hard flat surface would have caused significant damage to the detail on the front, given the impact that would have been required to number it.
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