Indian Signals Badge
Dear Phil.
As we have spoken before and as I have said I do not know what this badge actually is. (The scroll at the bottom really throws me).
I believe from the photos you have shown that this is a cast badge rather than a struck item.
The motto is the 1949 version in Devnagiri script of Teevra Chaukas in English Swift and Sure/Secure and can clearly be seen as being the same as the photo I attach of an early Officer's Brass Cross Belt Badge.
The motto before this was Certa Cito and translates to Tez O Sahih dating from 1934 so I am fairly confident that we are looking at a post 1949 badge.
If I had to make a considered guess I think this could be a locally struck badge made by a local craftsman and hence the oak leaves around the globe at the bottom in slightly the wrong place. Only a guess mind.
Nice little item though Phil.
Kind regards
Chris
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