Many different tailors supplied RAF Officers with their uniforms with many of these tailors manufacturing the badges. This is why there are so many variations. They sometimes have larger crowns, smaller crowns, metal crowns etc and slight variations in the shape and size of the lower leaves and even the black backing cloth. This is very evident in the Pilots wing badges they produced. Yes there were standard patterns supplied/procured by the RAF but it seems that in the end it was down to the individual officers preference/tailors skills to adhere to the spirit of the sealed patterns if not the actual design.
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