Sandcast doubts?
Whilst I am a great believer in forum ideas to promote knowledge in badge collecting, I am not too sure that this is going to be of any great benefit to newer collectors.
Having looked through my files for badges that were "locally made or sandcast" with a view to posting pictures of them on this site (I have found at least twenty and there may be others), I can stretch my mind back to the 1970's and receiving through the post some catalogues from Pakistan with illustrations of British badges (Volunteers, WWI, RND) all were "sandcast" and no doubt there were many more not illustrated.
Few, if any of the Volunteer or RND ever served further east than France whilst wearing cap badges and I would think that any cap badge that is shown on this thread or album needs to be justified as to serving in any area where "locally made or sandcast" badges could have been made.
Laurie Archer had this summed up in his chapter on restrikes in K&K.
Rob
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