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Originally Posted by KLR
There are apparently a couple of articles in The British Button magazine / journal from the 1950s which gives technical details. I've been looking for them for a while, if anyone does find this mag / articles, I'd be grateful for a copy
Julian
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Hi Julian,
I'd be pretty keen to get my hands on this too.
I have written to Firmin with a list of questions and the manufacturing process was one of them. Hopefully they will join the party and get back to me.
While most seem to have been manufactured via an die cast process I'm thinking that some may have been die forged too.
The large Scottish badges were probably die struck as these do follow the 'hollowback' style found in early German combat badges. However, the female die used (if they were made that way) does not seem to have much detail.
My silver Welsh Guards badge appears to have been die forged with shear marks on the edges where the cut of the die was made. Again, this is common on die forged German combat badges made from zink.
Thanks for the help here !!!
Regards
Chris