As a badge, I quite like it, but, there appears absolutely no age to it, whatsoever and a lack of quality when compared with vintage examples.
If members of the regiment actually wore these, then I would have to regard them as original, but, have they been so worn?
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Originally Posted by John Mulcahy
I am not at all sure about this star, it looks quite poor quality. The star may be cut asymmetrically. From what I can see this looks like a star that International Militaria in NJ were selling openly as a reproduction several years ago but that appears regularly now on e-bay
see example here
eBay item number:332913516827 (more than 10 available and 19 sold!)
John
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