Grenadier guards peaked cap
 

Another one for my collection! Staybrite buttons and brass badge...a beautiful cap! Not in mint condition, but pretty nice! Hope you like it!
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Grenadier guards peaked cap
 

Nice find . . !

Rob

Yes, I think that type of sweatband dates to the 1970's - 80's?
I may be wrong on that, but I think infantry recruits in the Queen's Regiment and the Royal Anglians were being issued caps with that horrible flesh coloured rubberized fabric sweatband in late 1972 / early 1973, and police helmets had the same sweatbands in the early 1980's.

Thank you Rob! Glad you like it!
Leight...I do like too the brown leather sweetbands instead this pale colour...but anyway this is a pretty cap!

The badge isn't Grenadier Guards.
Andy

Thought the flame pattern was a little unusual despite 17 points - what is it, Canadian?

This is a lot larger than the Grenadier Guards grenade.
Andy

Guardsman with a small head?

This grenade is HAC size.
Andy

That type of headband was in use through the 1980s in the RAF-regardless of manufacturer, so I would also put the cap in the '80s period. Late '80s if the chinstrap buckles are plastic. Regards, Paul.

Ta - I didn't know when the plastic buckles started being used.

I think Tigerlily tried to find out when they were introduced, in a thread posted some time ago.

So this badge is not correct for this cap?

You are right...the HAC grenade is different from the guards grenade..
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But the grenade of the cap I bought has not got the HAC acronym...

The plain ball grenade badge looks like the badge for the Winnipeg Grenadiers.

It is easy for me to change the badge of the cap for a correct grenadier guards cap badge (I have one spare) but I would like to know the origin of the grenade that my cap has...canadian? Hac?...Is a nice badge and it would be great to know something about it...Thanks for all your help!