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Of the 500 odd British anodised cap badges there are very few that have been produced by a single maker. |
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Thanks Mike, so the SWB one of the very few to be produced by a single maker, making the Smith and Wright and Timmings marked badges fakes? |
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No Jack. SWB marked are legit badges,the blank slider ones are believed to have been used by the SWB cadets.
Somerset Light Infantry has a Smith & Wright mark,no other maker is known. Thats an example of a single maker badge. |
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Gerard
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Here is the SOMERSET LI with SMITH & WRIGHT LTD. makers mark.
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Nice to see a whole SLI anod al beret badge - I've had one on a beret for years but it's minus its scroll.
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As previously commented, your swb by timmings is unusual, and does seem to go against the norm for this badge, but better people than I did not dismiss it so I can only assume it is an unusual but original badge. I have an unmarked example with the design on the rear which is considered to be a 70's/80's London seller badge https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...rderers&page=2
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Thanks Jerry. Reading that thread then it seems there was an anodised SWB with a Timings slider. Chris Marsh's book says they were only made by Dowler but the thread suggests this is perhaps incomplete information.
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OK a few just for interest. First my Timings example, which I'm not happy with at all and is likely a fake/copy etc.
Secondly the unmarked slider version, which does appear to have a Gaunt looking slider. Possibly a made for cadet badge, however, I suspect a 70's copy . . . |
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My Dowler example, which I would hold as the most original, it's what is on the pattern card and has the right feel and solid back of a good example early anodised badge.
Lastly, the early all gold trial pattern, which has the same construction as the wide 1st pattern RAOC - with unusual folded back integral lugs. Purely for interests sake folks. |
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nice to see the two Dowler examples and the lugged version is very unusual, do we have a maker for that type? The strike is very different and of course it has the mirror reverse usually only seen on the copies.
The gaunt die copies have the mirror reverse and it seems perhaps the timmings with the same feature as well might be copies, which is not from the gaunt die so not the dealer copies from the 70's/80's? I think GGA's is the same die as the timmings from Jack? here is my plain slider with mirror reverse which I believe is a 70's/80's fake from the gaunt die?.
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