Yes I totally agree Andy that there should be much clearer attribution and an attempt to provide a reference when such a categoric statement is made, especially with the prices being charged. I would love to know if the Grenadier Guards Museum has made a proper study of the undress insignia worn by the regiment over the last 300 years. In my opinion it is not properly appreciated that in a sense the hobby that this website focuses most upon, the collection of ordinary regimental cap badges, owes its subject to the fact that when other infantry were wearing simple numbers on their forage caps, the Foot Guards began the practice of wearing a Regimental badge, without question based on that upon their cartridge pouch. Despite this little is known about those early badges beyond their shape.
Last edited by Toby Purcell; 29-01-19 at 11:19 PM.
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