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Originally Posted by billy
Hi can I ask your views on this Irish Guards Pipers badge all brass? Haven't touched it yet cleaning wise, and not long in acquiring it but rear is blckish greenish! and front definition is well could be because its manky I see pitting? The lugs to rearcould have feet but appears to have been splayed out to attach to rear crest of the star?
Many thanks Billy
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Billy
this is not a pipers star, it is the design worn on the sabretache c. 1900-01 but unfortunately looks like a fake to me (loops feet and only two of them).
Plenty of threads on IG stars with further details.
John