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Originally Posted by Frank Kelley
Hello Chris,
In your opinion, which is the scarcest anodised Parachute Regiment badge and why?
Regards again Frank
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Hi Frank,
Absolutely no idea as records relating to manufacture and issue are very rare.
As a collector I tend to go for early badges such as Timings, early slider Smith & Wright, Hughes, George Tye and Grove Manufacturing.
Looking at my list of manufactures for the Parachute Regt there appears to be an early Grove Manufacturing piece with a non A/A slider (see page 79*) - that would be the one to go for in my opinion if scarcity was a defining issue but they are quite scarce.
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Note: I am indebted to Colin Mathews who collated the list of anodised aluminium cap badges that were manufactured with non-anodised aluminium sliders.
Regards,
Chris