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Originally Posted by leigh kitchen
Thanks - I have a photo of such a recruiter somewhere - (reversed & intertwined cyphers on the cuffs?).
That hadn't occurred to me.
Dress Regs 1900 describe the bullion QVC cypher badge and scalloped Crown button as being for Inspectors of Army Schools, and so by logical (oh yes?) extension I thought of the bullion KGV cypher and scalloped K crown buttons as the 1910 version of same?
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Your logic seems sound to me, Leigh. Perhaps the insignia concerned was worn by both sets of officers. Here are the 1904 Dress Regulations:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009027363. You will see other useful manuals/regulations in the list to the left side of the page once opened.