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Originally Posted by Alan Owen
The bent slider is not a sign of a restrike. More likely it was bent to fit lower down on the brim of a cap. I have seen several badges like that or with clipped sliders. A bendable slider may be the sign of a modern badge where the brass has not hardened with age but this is a very poor test. Often some makers simply had thinner sliders so I do not use this test.
Your badge looks fine to me.
Alan
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B P & Co. were taken over by Gaunts in 1916. General consensus is that very few firms stamped their sliders pre-WW1. Woodward stamped thier economies and I know of a genuine pre-1906 Tiptaft. This brand is one of those 'dubious' ones seen in a batch discussed on the 8th Leeds Rifles thread.