Hello Keith,
Personally I have not encountered a Gaunt made 27L officers pattern head dress badge fitted with a slider amongst the many that I've seen belonging to former members of the regiment. However, I have 27L officer pattern head dress badges and two pairs of collars with the applied wm/sp lower pennon sections which do stand proud of the gilding metal and not fitted flush. These, although not maker marked can be identified as coming from a Firmin die. I also have several un-named 27L badges, both head dress and collars which differ slighly to the Firmin made ones, now, they may well be Gaunts but I do not have a gauranteed WW2 made Gaunt named badge for comparison. That's the problem. During my research I failed to find any record whatsoever which suggested that other suppliers to Ordnance made 27L insignia. The search goes on!!.
Peter
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