Unusual South Staffs?
 

Has anyone encountered a South Staffordshire Regiment like this before with an overlaid scroll?

This is the first I’ve seen like it with 3 nice rectangular braze holes.

Well, I for one have never seen anything like it. One has to wonder just why it was constructed in that manner as the simpler single piece scroll with tabs was quite sufficient. Double the work it would seem to me.
Strange; albeit an nice badge however.

CB

I don't have a South Staffordshire Regiment cap badge with an overlaid scroll but I do have this rather strange Lancashire Fusiliers cap badge which does.

I cannot decide if it is a fake, or a re-use of an all gun metal badge, I suspect the former. I have never been happy with the circular sweat holes.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the Lancashire Fusiliers cap badge?

My thought is that it may be a repro which somebody has drilled to look like sweat holes. The raised edges around the holes show they were drilled and not stamped when the badge was made, just my opinion though.
Cheers,
Alex

I would agree with Alex. Why put that much effort to drill fake holes on asuch a badge is beyond me.

Those were my exact thoughts but why go to the trouble of making a one piece badge and adding an overlay unless you had a supply of one piece badges?

Can we rule out that the underlying badge is a 1916 G.M. badge? If it is, it would be easier to drill sweatholes for the overlay than to cut out rectangular holes.

I am not convinced that this is a reused G.M. badge but would appreciate an opinion about the possibility not that I can find no evidence that the Lancashire Fusiliers cap badge was issued in G.M.

You can rule out 1916 as there was no such bagde of this design made.