[Roy]

This is my latest example and most interesting it is too.

At first glance it appears to be just a standard gilt (now dull) cap badge. However it is in size the same as a collar badge and indeed came from the same die as those badges. A standard (all be it small) crimped original slider is fitted and it also also 'twice' marked by the maker 'Dowler Birmingham', found on the slider and also cast as part of the badge.

This small (collar size) cap badges are not unknown and believed to date from the WWII period. Although I'm not entirely sure what the reason may have been to produce such headdress badge of this size? An austerity measure or for a specific headdress? Finding some photographic evidence of use would be interesting.

Cheerio,

Roy