These round bottom badges are of the Officers' pattern but it is possible that NCOs may have adopted them as well - however this wold be regtl practice and not officially supplied. As has been said the waters are muddied by the fact that they are heavily reproduced.
As for the regtl museum's brass one - I fear that it has been donated as a 'rare WW1 all brass badge' and the museum has repeated the fallacy that such a badge was produced as a wartime saving measure when it is untrue and thus given a legitimacy to a fake.
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