The maker mark is of the style considered to be genuine and I know of at least one (marked) which came off a WW1 trophy belt of genuine badges.
However I saw this on eBay last week...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/badge-cap...edirect=mobile
As the rest of the sellers items were restrikes or fakes I emailed asking if it was original since the condition listed was ‘new’ and the description claimed to be ‘makers obsolete stock’.
I received a reply saying ‘Bent & Parker was one of the oldest badge manufacturers’ and the badge was ‘certainly genuine’. When I replied saying the maker is Bodill Parker and that I’d asked because the rest of his badges were fake, marked as ex-stock and also listed as new I received a reply saying he ‘rejected my assertion’ his badges were fake...
All the badges the seller had up and currently has listed look duds to me. What are the chances he owned one genuine Norfolk Yeo badge? Seed of doubt planted?
Luke