Non Voided Manchester cap badge.

[tonyb]

Bought this just now, seen one I think in F Wilkinson's book.
Well polished but nice all the same.
Tony.

[Alan O]

A nice badge and made in WW1. It is not possible to attribute them to a specific battalion but photos exist of Service Battalion soldiers who appear to wearing them. I have an album of similar unpierced badges which I assume were due to a skill shortage of workers withe the necessary cutting skills needed to pierce them as well as speeding up production.

Alan

[tonyb]

Thanks for comments Alan interesting.
Think this could be my contribution to Favorite of the year thread.
Always best when you buy a badge out of a cabinet rather than off the Internet.
Tony.

[magpie]

You need a tool setter to set up the press tooling in various stages for piercing ops, the cutting out is then done by unskilled operators who just put the raw badge in and out.

[Alan O]

Indeed I have assumed that these were sub-contracted out to other factories without a history of badge making who did not have the tooling or skills for the fine work.

[Neil s]

Of course even with a tool setter it does depend on the unskilled being able to put the badge in correctly
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[magpie]

This may also be the work of the setter not the operators who then just carried on with something that should have been scrapped rather than just put with the good badges.

[CAM]

Originally Posted by Neil s

Of course even with a tool setter it does depend on the unskilled being able to put the badge in correctly
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Made me smile