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Old 02-01-18, 02:11 PM
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I want to share this Badge I’ve had a while , I was very interested to see this unusual backing plate which appears to me to be a lid from a tin of food!
Can this badge be identified as WW1?
Happy new year everyone!
Kind regards Chay
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Old 02-01-18, 05:54 PM
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Is there any trace of red backing cloth between the badge and plate?

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Old 02-01-18, 06:51 PM
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There a red looking patch here but I see no fibres,
The plate I dare not move!
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Old 02-01-18, 07:29 PM
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The only reason I can imagine for the backing plate would be to hold a piece of backing cloth, red because they were a royal regiment.

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Old 02-01-18, 07:36 PM
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Thomas,
Yes certainly to keep the cloth inplace !
Although the cloth is missing I'm glad the plate remains it makes it far more interesting, when I got the badge off eBay there was only the photo of the front so I was surprised when it arrived.
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The only reason I can imagine for the backing plate would be to hold a piece of backing cloth, red because they were a royal regiment.

Rgds, Thomas
Isn't a scrap of red wool more likely to have come from the band of dicing on the KOSB glengarry bonnet? Perhaps the silk rosette should have prevented that.

I believe that the black rosettes (glengarry) or tartan flashes (ToS) would have been the only likely cap badge backing. Might a KOSB piper perhaps have worn a flash of Royal Stuart tartan with his ToS during the Great War?


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Old 03-01-18, 08:07 PM
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A very good original badge, that has considerable age to it, but, unless you know the name of gentleman who originally wore it, you are going to struggle.

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I want to share this Badge I’ve had a while , I was very interested to see this unusual backing plate which appears to me to be a lid from a tin of food!
Can this badge be identified as WW1?
Happy new year everyone!
Kind regards Chay
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