[QUOTE=Brigade Piron;232602]Personally I think provenance is anything reasonable, particularly if you have to actually ask for it from the seller. If I buy a normal badge and, after asking the seller after the auction, I get a reasonable answer (a non-descript NCO in a regular unit), I'm fully satisfied. 5 times out of 10 they simply say they don't know. However, I would never buy an item because of a claimed provenance, and appreciate that the same not true for high-end badges (i.e. SF bits).
I'm afraid I don't understand your reason for accepting that SF insignia was less likely to have genuine provenance than that of ordinary line regiments, in fact I would think the opposite as SF insignia is more demanded for some reason I haven't yet figured out.
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