You must also consider that the market trader you got it from had acquired it from a collector. In the Parachute Regiment your berets (working beret and best beret) were probably the most important thing you were issued. Believe me, nobody wore a beret where you could see any stitching at the front, or without a backing behind the badge or without a bow at the back. Any Paratrooper will tell you the same thing Leigh.
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