Unusual Indian Signals Badge
 

Hello all,
Here is an unusual looking Indian Signal Corps badge. Has anyone seen one like it? Can anyone tell me anything about it?

Best wishes. Phil.

Ind Signals
 

Isn't this the current version worn by them?

Indian Signals Badge
 

Dear Phil.

As we have spoken before and as I have said I do not know what this badge actually is. (The scroll at the bottom really throws me).

I believe from the photos you have shown that this is a cast badge rather than a struck item.

The motto is the 1949 version in Devnagiri script of Teevra Chaukas in English Swift and Sure/Secure and can clearly be seen as being the same as the photo I attach of an early Officer's Brass Cross Belt Badge.

The motto before this was Certa Cito and translates to Tez O Sahih dating from 1934 so I am fairly confident that we are looking at a post 1949 badge.

If I had to make a considered guess I think this could be a locally struck badge made by a local craftsman and hence the oak leaves around the globe at the bottom in slightly the wrong place. Only a guess mind.

Nice little item though Phil.

Kind regards

Chris

Unusual Sig badge
 

Thanks very much for your input Chris, always appreciated.
Piffer, you may be right, but I would have thought the "Jimmy" would be white metal.
This badge looks brand new and it came in a completely sealed packet, with this flimsy looking retaining pin. I bought it from Barcelona.
A nice badge regardless.

Phil.