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Originally Posted by Cleeman
Hi,
This one that I own is the same pattern as Kipling & King 1046, without the strap and garter. It is maker marked on the blades, Lambournes Birmingham. I have always had my doubts about it as I was unaware Lambournes did Officer badges. But it meets the pattern in K&K, even down to the star device on the bottom of the circle.
Apologies for the photo's, they were the correct way up on my phone's gallery.
Andy
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The badge is different from the one pictured in K&K. Note the position of the horses head, it’s ears, bottom leg. The badge pictured also seems to have had an extra attachment point on the mane?
Additionally the die is not the known Lambourne ARS as per the badge with the red background. The only OSD Lambourne badge I know of is a North Devon Hussars. It is made from the same die as the one used to make OR badges and is stamped Lambourne & Co Birmingham into the back of the badge itself behind the crown. Unlike this badge (and Lambournes in general) it is actually good quality.
Seeing these marked blades jogged my memory. They were discussed in this thread some years ago:
https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...=Marked+blades
The Essex badge shown in that thread is again not from the known Lambourne Essex Regt die, a lovely example of which is shown in Andy’s (Nozzer) album here:
https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ctureid=177338
I look forward to hearing Andy’s input on this as he has been collecting and researching Lambourne longer than I.