OK, I'll throw the spanner in.
The composite badge was made from an MGC cap badge and an RND shoulder title as this one appears to be. If this was the composition they came up with then I cannot imagine it being soft(lead) soldered and to such an extremely poor finish. That badge was done as a one off, I cannot imagine anyone in the workshops that these badges were puportedley made, soldering a couple of bits of metal together in such a sloppy way. There's enough solder on that on to do a 100 badges.
I believe the original to have had the RND title brazed to the front of the MGC badge not with a reinforcing link.
A good starting point would be looking at known original RND MG badges and looking for variations in the gun, and seeing what the date of this particular version is.
Unfortunately I think this is a cobbled together attempt from genuine items neither of which now have much value.
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