[thursdaychris]

Hi All,

I have been trying to establish exactly what the Skins Officers silver/gilt cap badges need to look like, I did briefly have a couple of "collar badges", as seen elsewhere, but these were not what I was looking for, of course!

Colin Churchill manages to muddy the water nicely in his section on the Skins when he says that several patterns of silver/gilt collar badges have been noted with Inniskilling under the castle, and that this same badge was also the Officers cap badge c1902-1927 occurring with both blades and lugs, he does not say, however, how these lugs were aligned.

I have been unable to find anything in print or anywhere in these forums about these lugs, but it does seem that the Officers silver/gilt cap badge should have EW lugs. I exchanged a few emails with my seller about this and he fine fellow that he is, promptly exchanged the badges that he had sent me, with the ones that I have attached. One of these, although it's a bit faded, even adds another kind of fixture altogether, discussed previously, I believe, in these forums.

These two badges will form part of my KC Officers cap badge collection, and I've attached a picture of the progress with that, at the end.