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Old 27-03-18, 08:26 AM
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Default Royal Artillery FN B'HAM Kings Crown "Double Layered" Manufacturers Mistake.

I picked this up a few days ago as it looked interesting - presumably this badge passed inspection (and was possibly worn) until the layers of metal sprung apart.
The badge doesn't consist of two separately struck badges accidentally overlaid.
The metal is only in two layers for the upper half of the badge, the lower part being a single, solid layer.
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Old 27-03-18, 08:46 AM
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Nice, interesting piece.
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Old 27-03-18, 12:36 PM
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A lovely scarce badge.

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I picked this up a few days ago as it looked interesting - presumably this badge passed inspection (and was possibly worn) until the layers of metal sprung apart.
The badge doesn't consist of two separately struck badges accidentally overlaid.
The metal is only in two layers for the upper half of the badge, the lower part being a single, solid layer.
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Old 27-03-18, 12:51 PM
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Most likely to be a flaw in the sheet of brass, it was probably OK until the badge was bent and it separated.
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Old 27-03-18, 12:56 PM
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Yes, that's what it looks like, I haven't come across that kind of fault before.
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Old 28-03-18, 07:26 PM
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I am sure that I do not have one of these to make a comparison, but, I am not an artillery collector, has anyone else come across this badge before?
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Old 29-03-18, 05:21 AM
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Here you go Frank, post #15 in this thread.
http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ad.php?t=49621
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Old 29-03-18, 07:28 AM
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Okay Tony, is the upper portion of the badge actually an applied overlay, looking at that photograph, it appears that it may be?
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Old 29-03-18, 11:53 PM
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Probably as Magpie says, a flaw in the sheet brass. Or,... someone in the “stamping room” threw or dropped a piece of brass into the machine and it was “welded” together by pressure until later it was bent or corrosion separated the pieces. A wonderful curio in my opinion. D.J.
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Old 30-03-18, 04:16 AM
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The metal isn't an obvious overlay covering only part of the badge, it has the appearance of an ordinary single thickness badge that's now partially seperated.
As if two sheets have been properly merged to form one thickness but the edge of the sheets "missed" so that they remain separate.
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Old 30-03-18, 07:38 AM
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In my opinion the fault would have most probably started as a cavity in the metal before it was rolled in to a sheet or a wrinkle that has been rolled flat over and into the surface, it's another of those badges which fall into the same category of misshapen wrongly stamped badges made during press set up operations or overlays and sliders which have moved while brazing, not a badge which has been specially made and one to keep an eye out for as there isn't another one exactly the same.
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