A very common practice in the Life Guards back in the day and not just upon the Forage cap either.
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Originally Posted by leigh kitchen
Emery cloth rather than Soldiers Friend or Brasso and elbow grease could be used to achieve the smooth, polished effect and could be applied to specific areas of a badge.
(This was certainly still the case in the late 1970's when I was surprised to see a worn brass rather than anod al badge being worn in the forage cap by a Life Guardsman in the unit I was in, he coughed to using emery cloth to get the old sweat look.
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