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#16
21-01-17, 10:12 PM
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Officer badges are gilt and Other Ranks are brass.
Marc 
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I am still looking for British Army cloth Formation, Regimental, Battalion, Company and other Unit sleeve badges, from 1980 onwards. Last edited by 54Bty; 09-02-22 at 05:35 PM. 
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#17
21-01-17, 10:25 PM
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Officers badges have the applied wheel, issued OR's don't.
Rgds, Thomas.
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22-01-17, 01:16 AM
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Yes, the photos looked gilt but may have been washed out for my screen. That will be something I need to carefully look at, the differences between a gilt finish and bright gilding metal. Darker bronze/brass is easy enough. Alan reminds me that the main difference is the fold over blades for officers earlier on. Didn't look at the wheel, should have but were all officer devices with applied/rotating wheels? I thought some OR's had rotating wheels as well? Will take some time I see.. Thanks again! Tim
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#19
22-01-17, 02:05 AM
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I have permission from the seller to use these images to vet the badge, no worries.
This is an example of what I normally would consider aged brass/bronze and what I would consider an OR to be wearing circa WW1 or slightly before. If I'm wrong, please tell me. Re: the badge shown. What's the opinion here? Looks like an applied but non-rotating wheel, really don't have enough experience to say but it has a nice look to it, though I will probably clean the verdigris off. Any issues with the slider being slightly offset towards the top where it's soldered to the badge? Tim
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#21
22-01-17, 11:06 AM
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The badge in post 19 is a brass ORs badge (not bronze) and does not have the extra wheel.
There are brass badges with the applied wheel however these were a private purchase item. Marc
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I am still looking for British Army cloth Formation, Regimental, Battalion, Company and other Unit sleeve badges, from 1980 onwards.
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#22
22-01-17, 05:33 PM
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Thanks again,
Yes, the seller had more than a few and the one with applied wheel was in fact another example I was looking at. Good catch! Yes, I seem to be having difficulty with distinguishing between a brassie looking gilding metal example and one that is actually gilded. Given time... Thanks again
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#23
19-02-17, 10:05 PM
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Well, I had to clean it up as the verdigris was just too much and actually starting to eat into the wheel above the 11 o'clock spoke; that's resolved.
I notice that at some point in time, someone painted this badge black and its since either worn off or, someone tried to remove it. Not sure when that actually happened or if it was an officer converted badge but I picked the small remnants off the obverse as much as I could with my fingernail. Just looked crappy with the bits of black here and there. I did leave a few specks in the recesses and left the reverse alone to keep the actual history. Lost some of the patina unfortunately but it looks better and the patina will eventually start to come back. Tim
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