What is the exact provenance in the books, what is the dating evidence and where did the actual badges come from?
I would have thought that differing batches of the same fabric and dyes, actually manufactured by differing companies, as well as differing printing blocks and pressure, would and did, produce variations given the very many thousands of badges made during the war and subsequently issued well afterwards to many soldiers.
It is all about actual evidence to date a particular badge, I do certainly have a number of printed examples, but, to be quite honest, I very much doubt that I would even have a handful that I can say were actually made before August 1945, I'll have a look in due course.
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Originally Posted by tcrown
The only two printed Pegasus on fine weave with WW2 provenance that I have in my documentation are provided by O. Lock and Ken Joyce in their books. Both have the slight ‘ghosting’ of the figure through the back of the patch (what I called Type 1 in my first post).
We all know that these patches were produced by a large number of printing firms belonging to the Calico Association during WW2. For that reason, several variations of patches have been recorded due to slight variations of both color and figure. It is also common knowledge that two type of cotton fabric were used in the manufacturing process but only one type of fine weave cotton (satin drill #2).
I have attached below a close up comparison of the fine weave Pegasus that are the object of the thread. We can clearly conclude the fabric used is not the same. This is the reason why I’m wondering if the second type (on the right hand side of the photo) wasn’t produced at a later time.
Thanks in advance for your contribution.
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