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Originally Posted by Sonofacqms
As I have said before, without handling the badge you can never be 100% sure, but if I saw either of these badges on ebay, I would not add them to "my watching list", the double scroll 19th is a very rare badge, I have never handled a real one in 55 years.
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KIPLING AND KING vol 2 , page 225 about restrikes...
"""....for instance, a cast specimen of the elephant/double-scroll pattern of the 19th hussars (KK790): collectors in those days
knew that their chance of obtaining an original of such a badge well-nigh negligible....""""""
