An interesting post - I've been doing the same classification with my (KLR) collection.
Officers Service Dress (OSD) - and by implication the bronzed badges - was introduced by Army Orders (A.O.) 8 of 1902.AO 54/1947 made the officers bronze badge obsolete, but they were certainly worn beyond that !
The first one looks like a proper cast OSD – but the J&Co stamp is new to me – all the ones I’ve ever seen are as that on your second badge.
I thought at first that your second one was an OSD scrubbed or polished down to the brass, but on second thought I wondered if it is a struck OR badge. Yes, I know that “Jennens only made officer’s badges” but I have a couple of KLR badges that I suspect are J&Co OR badges !?
The third badge looks like a ‘theatre made’ cast badge.
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