There was a post in a thread recently that neatly divided the research that defined which type of badge when, and the physical definition of 'authentication' of a "genuine badge. This was explicitly discussed on page 86 inBulletin of the Military Historical Society, Vol 66, no 262 (November 2015).
My day time job is an a numismatist; coins have been faked since the first coins appeared in the 6th c BC. Many of these 'fake' copies were produced and used by ancient communities (as well as as late as the 18th century). It didn't bother them !
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