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Originally Posted by Roy
Hi Gents,
I just wanted to share my latest arrival, a Bihar Light Horse cap badge. I have seen a few of these badges but this example caught my eye. The detail in the boars features seems of a lot higher quality that those examples I have seen previously, so aside from it being a nice example, perhaps indicates it's an early badge (?). It has a poorly repaired and rather messy lug but the nice frontal rendition more than makes up for it.
Now if only I can find a HM silver example.....anyone?
Enjoy!
Cheerio,
Roy
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The earlier (authentic) version. The boar has his tail down unlike ver02. with the tail up.
(a)
Tail Boar carry of:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-Pr...p2056016.l4276
(b)
History BLH of with later insignia, motto:
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id42.html
(c) There is a nice BLH pig sticking cup with boar tusks at the NAM.