[Alan O]

Chaps,

Very interesting. Do you think this explains the presence of the Yorkshire Volunteer gold rose and black painted badge? Its existance is non-sensical unless it is a part finished badge.

The rose should be silver - possibly the factory plated them, painted them for the next process without realising that they should have been silvered first. Once they noticed that the colours had been reversed, they then discarded them with the paint in place as it was easier to start again than to remove the paint, silver them, paint them again and add the gold?

A dealer buys the reject stock and voila - a very rare Yorks bde variation commanding a huge price.

Alan