Whilst outside the timeframe of my collecting I may be able to add something.
Corresponding with Keith Hook he mentioned that he has the last pattern QC Yorkshire Dragoons cap badge in WM taken from the SP card. He continued that it like the QC North Somerset Yeomanry and QC Dorset Yeomanry were never issued.
The QC Dorset Yeomanry die clearly fell into the hands of the repro-ers as these abound on eBay marked Gaunt B’ham.
I would suspect the QC Northumberland Hussars is another one of these never issued in metal and fell into the wrong hands so consequently all the Gaunt B’ham marked badges are 1970s and beyond restrikes from the original die.
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