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Old 28-05-11, 05:12 PM
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Tony,
it is one I would hang onto, it has IMO been cast from an original... When is something which you'll never probably find out.....

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Old 28-05-11, 05:39 PM
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Is this badge an OSD with the bronzing cleaned off.
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Old 28-05-11, 05:48 PM
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I think this badge went out of use before OSD bronzed badges were introduced?

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Old 28-05-11, 05:49 PM
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There was not a bi-metal pattern...

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Here's a bi-metal pattern:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sharpshooters-Imperial-Yeomanry-Cap-Badge-/350466549916?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash= item51996f289c

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Old 28-05-11, 05:57 PM
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Whilst I'm a regular customer of this vendor, I think this one is another misdescribed item from an auction house! I think they only came in GM?

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Old 28-05-11, 06:02 PM
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It looks as thought the original was cast from a specimen like the bi-metal badge.
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Old 28-05-11, 06:12 PM
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I tend to agree and this changes my opinion! The link above shows a very rough, cast badge! Although I may be wrong I think the bi-metal offering is a wrong un and the badge at the start of the post seems to be cloned from it?

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Old 28-05-11, 06:45 PM
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This may be slightly off course from the original thread, but I have a silver officers Cambridgeshire cap badge that was cast using a bi-metal other ranks Cambridgeshire for a mould, the scroll which is usually in gilding metal is visible in the cast on the officers badge.

As to whether this is an original item can only be guaged from the fact that it came in a cake tin with a lot of other cloth and metal badges mainly from the East Anglian region, all the others were original which had no doubt been collected some fifty years ago.

My point is that I would not dismiss this badge as a copy/fake.
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Old 28-05-11, 07:35 PM
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This may be slightly off course from the original thread, but I have a silver officers Cambridgeshire cap badge that was cast using a bi-metal other ranks Cambridgeshire for a mould, the scroll which is usually in gilding metal is visible in the cast on the officers badge.

As to whether this is an original item can only be guaged from the fact that it came in a cake tin with a lot of other cloth and metal badges mainly from the East Anglian region, all the others were original which had no doubt been collected some fifty years ago.

My point is that I would not dismiss this badge as a copy/fake.
Was that a Mr.Kipling cake tin?
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Old 28-05-11, 09:07 PM
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Before we all start swooning over this badge, just take a pause, it is not of a standard other ranks construction, sweat holes and overlays would be the norm and not pinned/riveted! If it is an officers badge then it is of rather poor quality, from a period when "Fine" badges were produced!!! For me this is a copy and not a badge I would even consider placing a bid on! K&K state Gm for ORs badges, I fully appreciate that they are not always spot on, but I am of the opinion that this Bim offering is a high class fake!


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The badge I originally posted is in my opinion certainly a cast copy of the type of badge in the link posted by PeterJ.
As to the linked badge being original I have no idea
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Before we all start swooning over this badge, just take a pause, it is not of a standard other ranks construction, sweat holes and overlays would be the norm and not pinned/riveted! If it is an officers badge then it is of rather poor quality, from a period when "Fine" badges were produced!!! For me this is a copy and not a badge I would even consider placing a bid on! K&K state Gm for ORs badges, I fully appreciate that they are not always spot on, but I am of the opinion that this Bim offering is a high class fake!


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Andy - Do you really 'swoon' over badges ? David
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Old 29-05-11, 01:14 PM
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Andy - Do you really 'swoon' over badges ? David
David,
"Swoon", to faint or become ecstatic.............

The latter quite often!

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the verdigris (on the badge in the first post) looks nothing like real verdigris, more like paint. Never saw a theater made sandcast badge with those lugs either.

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Old 30-05-11, 06:34 PM
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I am slightly confused (nothing usual there then) about this badge. Was it only ever in g/m or is the bi-metal pattern also valid?

K&K say:

3rd County of London (Sharp Shooters)
(2) Crossed rifles surmounted by an Imperial crown. Below a scroll inscribed 'Sharpshooters'. For other-ranks. In gilding metal [Fig.1363].'

Whereas...

F. Wilkinson - Badges of the British Army 1820-1960, says:

'[Fig.406] - Sharpshooters BI'

I am wondering if some of the braver forum members might have examples of this badge (g/m & bi-metal) for us to tear to pieces, please?

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