Hi all
This has now got me wanting to chase down a "round corner" badge seen in a local junk(sorry, "antique") shop.
My photo skills are possibly even worse than Chipper's but I've looked at both of my current ones and they would appear to be quite even in form and shape.
The Wylie badge is thicker (I will get a size on this if of interest) and the Gaunt thinner.
One strange aspect is that the Gaunt badge has the corners very slightly sloping (photo when I can get one that looks OK).
I know that this is from a so-called "trimming cutter" so imagine, if you will, a triangle cutter with rounded corners, much like a pastry cutter.
Hypothesis: a normally struck "sharp" 1916 badge is placed on a backing plate and the rounded cutter trims off the corners.
Ah ha! This would also account for the badly "blurred" Gaunt name to the rev erse!
They certainly didn't make many of them given their survival rate.
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