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Originally Posted by Mike
Hi Brian,
here are your images that you sent to me via email,
I have enlarged them slightly.
The silver rifle (royal artillery) and London Scottish are sweetheart broaches.
I'm clueless regarding the cloth item.
identifying the cap badge on the soldier in the photo is not possible as enlarging makes it grainy, so we need a higher resolution scan to be in with a chance.
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Thanks to Mike and his clue that about the two small badges being Sweetheart Badges, the Secretary of the London Scottish Association has just advised me that the most recent sale of their sweetheart badge, toirtose shell with sterling silver surround sold for 95 British pounds and we found the same of the Artillery Sweetheart badge, gold and sterling silver that sold for $80 Australian cos i met an ex Aust gunner who bought it, he got it from a dealer in Canada of all places, and got it for his wife to wear to RAA reunions on her jacket or when he wears his medals to various things, he said he had been searching for one of this type for years, had only seen them when he was in Malays and a wife of a 45 Regt bloke was wearing one.