With repros they do all sorts of things regards their manufacture method and fixings. Often simply creating a novelty a collector will buy as a curio and ask questions later, or an item that will appeal to the uninformed, or it’s just the product of a method that suited the manufacturers.
Sometimes its done to deceive but sometimes not and origins/use are overt as not being period but novelty, and so on. A car badge is a possibility. It may also be an attempt at an officer’s PBP etc.
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