Re: Brass KDG Eagle (No scroll)
Wilkinson does have a Brass example on page 10 fig 7 as 1st KDG; Brass; Slider; (no scroll) ....... its postion in the line up implies pre 1915? He does show the 1937 White metal with loops as the last one for the KDG (the white metal example he shows is the QDG pattern?).
Gaylor, in contrast, says that the "Brass" eagle with no scroll started life in 1937.... he then goes on to say that the White Metal came into existance during the Second World War and remained so even after amalgamation. On plate 3 in his book he shows what I assume to be the Brass eagle in the KDG pattern.
In the book "Dress Regulations for the Army 1900" by the War Office.... the Brass Eagle (Pattern 1) is shown without scroll?!
"Worn in the Puggaree, The Austrian Eagle, in Gilt or Gilding Metal". {Appendix I; Badges-Cavalry; Sub Heading : On full dress Head-dress; 1st (Kings) Dragoon Guards}
In summary we have three different dates ...from three different books?
Is this the Gilt or Gilding metal (no scroll) Puggaree badge c1900?
