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Old 05-08-17, 01:32 PM
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Default Vickers Armstrong badge
Picked this one up this morning for a couple of quid, no idea if genuine or not, having read previous threads on these badges, believed to be cast in Vickers own factory?
A couple of the letters and number incomplete, don't look to have broken, could be poor casting, any opinions on this one welcome.
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Vickers Armstrong Home Guard 1st Bn. Letts to top are HG, letters to bottom are 1st bn. Why they have 1st bn i don`t know as i believe there was only 1 battalion! Nice badge though,

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Looks like they ran out of molten metal during casting.
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Thanks for the input chaps, Dave it is a nice badge not one I've seen in the 'flesh' before acquiring this one. Phil I think your correct about the casting.
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Why would one put lugs on a badge that did not pass quality control?
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Why would one put lugs on a badge that did not pass quality control?
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btns reading previous threads its seems they went over to cloth badges, wonder if difficulty in casting these badges was behind the change???
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