Silvered Buffs Cap Badge
 

Any information welcome on this one please. Obviously it The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), and it’s a cap badge but…..
It appears to be plated )not marked with a P), on two lugs, nicely tarnished. Is it a Volunteer cap badge? 141 RAC cap badge (although if it was I would have expected it to be on a slider ?), an officers badge of some kind ? Or something else….

Will be offered for sale once positively identified


Thanks in advance

Paul

Alas, I cannot offer any useful information Paul, but would certainly like register my interest in acquiring it once available if that’s not too cheeky!

Cheers……John

Snap!

Not a genuine badge sadly. Likely one of badgeman’s early efforts before they were routinely stamped ‘silver’.

Luke

Whilst I respect your opinion, what makes you say that it is fake? It’s a good quality badge with signs of wear , if it’s a fake it’s a bloody good fake….

Paul

Hi Paul, I bought one of these badges just recently, here is mine

Chris

Yours is different to mine. Mine is die struck, yours looks more die cast …

Paul

Hi Chris,

Alas, the badge you have shown is the Birmingham Mint reproduction:

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ictureid=31362

The lack of neck spines joining to the wings is the most obvious feature of those.

Cheers……John

Yes, it is the same beastie, though, I got it to keep this other one company!

John

The Birmingham Mint version is on a slider, both mine and Chris’s are on lugs…never seen a Birmingham Mint one on lugs….

Paul

The Birmingham Mint badge is on a slider and looks like this

Tim

The front

Tim

Looks like another one needs to go to Specsavers!

Ah, apologies, yes all seen. I wonder then from looking again at Chris’ badge what size it is and is it a collar badge. But with that we digress from the point of the OP.

Cheers……John

If it was Vols then it would be nickel with brass lugs. The bespoke 4th TF was BB rather than silver. The RAC were plated brass on sliders.

Thumbs down from me I am afraid.

The Buffs collar badges