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Originally Posted by Luke H
I agree and believe these to be later manufacturers errors as they’re poorly rendered and lack quality in both metal used and the strike. The cat looks more like a squirrel or chipmunk and the boar’s head is very wonky. The metal is nearly always grey and near black when tarnished which is very unlike Edwardian era German Silver.
Personally I’d always wondered if these were of c.WW1 manufacture. The suggestion of 1910 would make it an Edwardian badge and I just don’t see the quality in its design, manufacture or materials for it to be that date.
The quality compared to the badge magpie shows the vast difference.
Just my opinion of course.
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Sorry if I implied the two badges were original Edwardian badges, that's not really what I meant.
I meant that the design/pattern is the 1910 sealed pattern - Voided with tail raised behind the cat.
This pattern was amended in 1913 and sealed again, but with the tail hidden below the cat and this was the pattern that remained unchanged thereafter upto WW2 and beyond.