An interesting find! Thanks for showing it. It has the general look of a blazer button rather than a uniform button doesn't it?
I'm still inclined to think that our mystery badge has something to do with dockyard police or something similar though I still haven't found any evidence. It's certainly not a cap badge worn by any officer or rating in the Royal Indian Navy as they wore the same badges as the Royal Navy, but it obviously dates from some time before India became a republic in 1950.
I know that Royal Navy cap badges were adopted by India when the Royal Indian Marine became the Royal Indian Navy in 1934 and I've seen examples of what officers wore prior to that date. But I have never seen any images of what ratings wore as cap badges prior to 1934. Perhaps they wore badges similar to those worn in the RN or maybe they wore something totally different - like our mystery badge.
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