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Originally Posted by Luke H
From a manufacturing perspective if you were already making the below badges and took on a contract for a Leinster badge it would be an expedient, economical and financially attractive proposition to not cut a whole new die but manufacture a tag on scroll.
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Cutting a new die really shouldn't be a problem for a military badge production company as presumably they employ professional, highly skilled die cutters and pattern makers.
If, on the other hand, you were a dodgy dealer knocking out fake badges, using the plumes from one particular badge to make several other badges and selling them as "manufacturer's variants", that indeed would be an expedient, economical, and financially attractive proposition.
As many of these badges were knocked out in the 1970s, they have been around long enough to have acquired both patina and the much vaunted provenance that it came from an old collection.
Caveat emptor.