Hi Mike
You may well have a point there. I had a friend who worked for a badge maker and he said that sometimes the most carefully made enameled badge could be utterly ruined by the overstoning of the the enamel! It often made it hard to work out what was what....
I'm still going with a ribbon for this badge as it would make sense to join the laurels with this. Yes, the later rationale of the four crutch heads makes sense.
These days, we've got little appreciation for how labour intensive the making of these little bits of metal and enamel were.
If I get the chance, I'll take some photos of the badges that I have for Australia.
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