Books on buttons and collar badges?
 

Hi All,

I've got lots of books on badges and Westlake's work on Shoulder Titles but I am flying blind on collars and buttons.

1. What are the definitive works on collar badges?
2. Ditto buttons?
3. My Westlake edition is 1980. Is there anything new out there picking up after this period on shoulder titles?

Thanks and best wishes,

Tom

Books
 

Tom,
Colin Churchill produced a book on Infantry collar badges, worth buying.

Gwen Squire also has a book on buttons which covers various aspects apart from military such as Fire Brigade, Prison etc.

Rob

Various books on buttons by Howard Ripley and Shoulder Belt Plates and Buttons by Parkyn

Colin Churchill’s book available here starting at £20 + £3 postage
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133889424...sAAOSwsxNhUuMo

Tim

Ripley (solo or with others e.g. Darmanin, Moodie) should have you covered for buttons wherever your interests may lie:

Regular Army 1855 - 2000 ISBN 0-9524461-1-1
Militia (Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands) ISBN 978-0-9524461-3-2
Local Militia ISBN 0-9524461-2-X
Yeomanry ISBN 0-9510603-8-4

There may be more by him - Googling above will likely throw them up too.

EY

Colin CHURCHILL'S book only covers infantry

book
 

There is a copy of Churchills book on collars on ebay at the moment - see post on Castle Militaria...

Mark

if anyone can answer but are the illustrations in the 2001 edition of infantry collars better than those in the 2002 edition?

no one got an opinion or knowledge of the quality of images in the 2001 and 2002 editions?

I have the latter edition in which the illustrations are not very clear, being dark and small and not that sharp.

Its unlikely that someone has both editions with which to do a comparison.

regards

I did think that might be the case, but I lived in hope.

thanks for commenting

I have the 2001 first printing and the photos are decent in terms of sharpness. The OSD in particular tend to be dark but details are generally visible. My understanding is that the 2002 printing was somewhat inferior, but I cannot personally confirm this.

It's worth bearing in mind that the photos are actual size; I've placed many of my collars over the corresponding image and they're almost always an exact match.

thanks you for commenting, it is appreciated.

these are the buttons books I have, line illustrations but they are clear to see.

as I had to know, I bought the first edition to go with my 2002 reprint, the images seem of the same quality, many a bit dark.

I notice from a quick look that at least one change of badge image, for the RWF was made for #652.