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Old 04-05-21, 04:51 AM
kingsley kingsley is offline
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There were a few different UK rising sun badge makers in WW1, but only a few were clearly maker marked. I have a clearly marked Firmin rising sun hat and collar badge and have seen an extensive list of makers somewhere from both world wars, including British, but it would take a week of research to find it. Maybe it is available on line somewhere.
The WW1 oxodised Gaunt badge can be indentified (although unmarked) because it is clearly the same leftover die that Gaunt originally produced in 1904 for the first ever ACMF badges, made in gilt, stg silver, bronze, and silver/gilt/enamel. There is a gilt badge illustrated on the Forum somewhere
on my Gaunt sample card from around 1908.
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