Officer's ASC 1901-11 badge with various tangs, loops etc
 

I thought it might be of interest to show the variety of different fittings on the officer's Army Service Corps 1901-11 forage cap badge. This is the one illustrated in Kipling & King as KK 988.

Top left: gilt and silver plate with two tang or blade fittings

Top right: Another version but with an unusual arrangement of a single tang and a single loop fitting, positioned N&S. The gilt and silver plate is totally absent, so it has either completely worn off or the badge was made in bi-metal

Bottom left: OSD version with two tang fittings

Bottom right: Another OSD version, but on two loops. Probably a full size collar

Unfortunately, I haven't yet found the OR's version.
Mark

I suspect the one lug and tang is for the Torin style cap where the badge sat low on the cap.

Great collection you show there, very nice.
Tony

thanks
awesome badges
bc

Nice badges.
Andy

Thanks Gents. Alan that's an interesting thought re the tang and loop arrangement. I must admit I'm not at all clear when the Torin cap was worn or even where the word drives from. I'm presuming possibly late 19th / early 20th century usage, which could fit. I'm therefore going to go along with your thoughts and categorise it in my badge notes as a possible Torin badge.
Thanks for the help.
Mark

Could there be a Scottish connection ?

A kid I went to school with , in Edinburgh , was called Torin and he claimed the name was derived from the Gaelic term for a Chief.

Consider the names of other bonnets/caps :

Kilmarnock (Hummel)

Glengarry

Balmoral

Tam O'Shanter

Just a guess but worth thinking about. :D


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Memory may be failing me, but was'nt the cap named after a Captain Torin?

You are possibly right , found this :

"It was often called the “Torin” cap (named after the Irish officer who supposedly designed the British Army version)."


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