There seems to be a very common assumption, mostly spread by dealers that if a KC parachute regiment is genuine it automatically equals ‘WW2’. Not so. The KC badge was still made and issued well into the 1950s.
The badge in question appears to show one scar on the viewers left from a loop.
These slidered badges are fairly scarce and by the marks on the 2 marked ones I’ve seen 1950s. The other unmarked badges I’ve seen all have similar shaped sliders suggesting same period of manufacture. We can be certain they didn’t only order and issue half a dozen parachute regiment badges from Gaunt in the 1950s therefore the other badges must have had loops.
I don’t think it’s safe or logical to assume this a WW2 badge kept in stores for some 5-7 years and then converted. Far more likely and simply it’s a circa 1950s made badge that was converted during the manufacture process.
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