This is the Firmin silver one I have. Like so many of these 1968 TA units badges, I am ambivalent as to whether they were ever actually worn or made for collectors' market. I have examples of nearly all of them recorded but primary evidence of them actually in use is non-existent. The Keep Museum at Dorchester has an example of the Dorsetshire Territorials a/a badge but states that it was never worn.
Firmin is not a mark to fake as the firm still exists and has copyright on the mark. The badge is die struck rather than the cast ones seen earlier.
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