Those thistles are found with both original steel pins and loop fixings for headdress plus occasionally clips for the sporran.
Keith Hook told me in 1951 he knew and met a member of the London Scottish who joined as a very young man pre-1907 and he showed him his original badge from his 7th (London Scottish) Middlesex RVC days. That badge had such a steel pin fixing.
My hunch is steel pin for the 7th Middx RVC and loops for the Boer War era Royal Scottish Reserve Regiment.
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