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Originally Posted by Alan Owen
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
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Thanks Alan,
I was talking a few years ago with a Captain ex. Yorkshire Volunteers and he never mentioned a black marked badge for this unit.
I'm including it as it was made and is staybrite and at this stage of things I am still in the 'data capture' mode and if its made of 'staybrite' I want to know about it.
The next stage of evaluating the badges will be followed by classification to sub groups such:
Commissioned and Issued
Commissioned and not issued
Commemerative Pieces
Mistakes
etc.
All this for the months ahead.
I suppose a good test for the black marked Yorkshire Vols. badge would be to put some acetone via a 'Q-Tip' on it and see if the colour comes off - any takers?
This is a test I did on a 'mint' Imperial German wound badge to discover I had bought a 25 pound fake...
Regards
Chris