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Old 11-09-14, 10:58 AM
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Please help with the ID of this badge looks more like a balloon than a parachute.

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Old 11-09-14, 11:37 AM
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It's a parachute ok. Just not very well woven.
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Old 11-09-14, 11:56 AM
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Thanks for the reply what's the approximate date.

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Old 11-09-14, 12:20 PM
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Z4,

It's a Parachute Regiment badge by the looks of it, not RAF
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Looks like a blazer badge cut down with Queens Crown, so after 1953.
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Old 11-09-14, 03:56 PM
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Looks like a blazer badge cut down with Queens Crown, so after 1953.
That would be my inclination too but probably one of the Indian manufactured ones (you get some very good ones and some very bad ones) so maybe for a particular branch of the OCA?
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