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Luke,
fantastic badge. Do not know where it was worn but with the lugs, i would suspect a pouch badge. Form of construction is very much hand worked and i would suspect it comes from possibly the Regency Shako period (1816-1829) where the majority of badge in K&K are hand finished similar to this badge though there are examples of hand finished badges up to 1844 but fewer in number. This is not based on knowledge on my part, just an analysis of the images in K&K and reference to 2 badges i have from this period. I have an example of KK39 from this period and the hand fretting of the letters is done in exactly the same way. I also possess a 1st North York militia officers of similar construction from this period.