Anodised Aluminium Cap Badges By Marples & Beasley
 

Hi Guys,

Weekend manufacturer lists are back!!!

Can you state which badges you have in your collection for this manufacturer please.

Badges so far:



5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
13th / 18th Hussars
15/19th Kings Royal Hussars
Army Air Corps
Light Infantry
RAOC
REME
Royal Anglian Regiment
Royal Irish Regiment (Gold - beret).
Small Arms Schools Corps
W.R.A.C
Yorkshire Volunteers


Regards

Chris

Marples & Beasley
 

Hi Chris,
Just one more -

W.R.A.C

Best Regards
UKbrits

Thanks Mate...

hi chris
i have a 15/19th kings royal hussars
bc

Thanks !!!

Two from me
REME
RAOC

OC14

AA BADGES from M&B
 

"YORKSHIRE". Gold a/a badge, queens crown, rose of york and scroll with the crown and scroll YORKSHIRE painted black
JERRY.

Thanks OC14,

I sent you a couple of emails - did you get them?

Regards

Chris

Thanks Jerry,

Sound like an unfinished Yorkshire Brigade/Volunteers.

I have the same.

Regards

Chris

Chris

3 more for your list.

WRAC all Gold
Army Air Corps
Royal Anglian Regiment

Paddy

Thanks Paddy.

Your WRAC (all gold) will be a manufacturers error - I have similar.

Regards

Chris

Yorkshire Volunteers Badge
 

Hi Chris and Jerry

Just a bit of info on the York Vol badge blackened, this badge is a figment of a well known dealers imagination who served in 3 Yorks with me. He got a batch of the cap badges and first lot he blackened the whole lot he then blackened just the rose and the last he blackened just the scroll.
He also had made various bullion cap badges to the Yorkshire Vols with different coloured backings, which were totally rejected by the unit in the mid 1970s.
Hope this clarifies why you see the blackened badges.

Peter- ex D Company 3 Yorks...lol

Hi Peter,

From researching the manufacturing process I noted that the black paint was used in the two dye colouring procees for multi-coloured or as officially known, two-toned badges. This process in the colour dye process of anodised cap badges is known as 'Stopping Off' and the black paint is used as a masking agent to prevent the second colour over 'writing' the first.

The badge is colour dyed with the first colour and then those areas that are to remain the that colour are masked off with black paint or in some cases wax. The badge is then re-coloured and the areas previously dyed and not masked off are re-dyed by the second dye colouring process. The black paint is then removed revealing the original colour beneath it and you have a two-tone badge.

Some dealers are selling these unfinished badges as rare variants and no doubt a few others are amending others with a view to deceive collectors but don't worry as I'll expose any dodgy dealer and badge as and when I have proof.

Regards

Chris

a/a Marples & Beasley
 

Hi Chris,
Found one more made by Marples & Beasley -

The Light Infantry.

Best Regards.
UKbrits

OK, got it.

Regards

Chris