Marples & Beasley - Updated List 1 February 2023
There seems to be a general consensus on the Forum that the maker mark MARPLES & BEASLEY over BIRMINGHAM should not appear on the sliders of 'other ranks' badges made in white metal (WM), gilding metal (GM) or bi-metal (BIM). The mark is therefore an indicator that the badge is not genuine (i.e. a fake or reproduction), or that it is perhaps a genuine badge and the mark has been added to provide spurious verisimilitude. There is also evidence that a good badge may have had a marked replacement slider added.
The following list (not exhaustive) is an attempt to cover badges that have been seen for sale and/or have been identified on this Forum by members in recent years.
MARPLES & BEASLEY \ BIRMINGHAM
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards WM
15th Hussars
17th/21st Lancers WM
20th Hussars GM
21st Lancers (VRI) KC GM
22nd Dragoons WM
26th Hussars GM
5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards KC WM
9th Lancers KC WM
Army Air Corps KC WM
Army Air Corps QC WM
Artists Rifles WM
Auxiliary Territorial Service KC GM
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment WM
Buffs GM
Control Commission Germany GM
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry WM
Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry GM
Edward VII cypher KC WM
East Lancashire Regiment KC BIM
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse QC WM
Glider Pilot Regiment KC WM
Hertfordshire Yeomanry GM
Highland Yeomanry QC WM
Home Counties Brigade WM
Intelligence Corps KC GM
King Edward’s Horse KC WM
King’s Own Royal Border Regiment BM
Lanarkshire Yeomanry GM
Lancashire Fusiliers BIM
Life Guards GVIR (replacement slider)
Manchester Regiment GM and in WM (fleur de lys)
Norfolk Regiment GM
North Devon Hussars KC GM
North Irish Horse QC WM
Northamptonshire Regiment BIM
Northumberland Fusiliers GM (‘repaired’ with M&B slider)
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry WM
Palestine Police KC WM
Parachute Regiment KC WM
Pioneer Corps KC GM
Queen’s Own Yorkshire Yeomanry BIM
Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) GM
Rifle Brigade KC WM
Royal Dragoons BIM
Royal Engineers KC GM
Royal Fusiliers 1st Judean Battalion GM
Royal Norfolk Regiment GM
Royal regiment of wales BIM
Royal Ulster Rifles KC WM
South Staffordshire Regiment QC BIM
South Staffordshire (2nd VB) KC WM
Special Air Service BIM
Staffordshire Yeomanry KC WM
Staffordshire Yeomanry QC WM
Upper Thames Patrol GM
Welsh Regiment WM (2nd VB)
Westmoreland & Cumberland Yeomanry GM
Wiltshire Regiment AEA GM
Tim
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Last edited by grey_green_acorn; 01-02-23 at 07:22 PM.
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