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I’ve just picked up the badge shown in the centre of the 1st photo. What I’ve not seen before is this pattern of flames on an ORs cap badge.
Photo 1 shows it between an early lugged version on the left & a later shanked version on the right. As can be seen the outline of the flames above the grenades on the two flanking badges appear generally circular, whereas the flames on the subject badge are distinctly more angular.
In fact the pattern of flames are more akin to those found on one of the OSD variants commonly encountered as shown in photo 2.
I then twigged where I’d seen this pattern of flames before. It was on a 3rd VB badge as shown in photo 3 which is an exact match.
I’d be interested to know if others have encountered this pattern.