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Old 29-05-17, 05:17 PM
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Default Royal Naval Division unusual MGC badges

So I've seen the Machine Gun Battalion RND badge before - but I've recently seen 3 badges that are a combination of the MGC badge and the badges of Anson Bn RND, Hawke Bn RND and Hood Bn RND.

The badges are clearly two badges made into one - and I would have dismissed them as fantasy badges except I have every reason to believe the badges were made by Gaunt themselves ?

Would theses have been trial badges ? Or has any other member seen them before?
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Old 29-05-17, 05:58 PM
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Can u please post some photos as I am unclear as to what you saw.

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Old 29-05-17, 08:37 PM
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Here's two of them
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Old 29-05-17, 09:42 PM
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These are well known fantasy fake badges, there are many combinations around.
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Old 30-05-17, 05:33 AM
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That would have been my first thought except these are in a Gaunt sample book from WW1. Of course they might have been added to the book at a later date ? I've not had a chance to examine them and all the other badges in the book are fairly mundane - so if no one has ever seen them before other than in fake land, I'm going to lean towards the "added later" theory.
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Old 30-05-17, 08:09 AM
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Could these badges in the Gaunt book be trial samples that were never adopted?

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Old 31-05-17, 05:40 PM
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If they are genuine *trial" badges then the three are probably worth the asking price for the whole album ( 550 quid) - however given other members have said theyre well known fakes ( confess I've never seen them before) I'm not brave enough take a punt. !
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