para gaunt flawed slider silver sweetheart

[JerryBB]

a recent purchase a lovely (IMO) chrome not silver plated Parachute regiment Beret badge with a brooch conversion.

It has the well 4 known Gaunt flaws and interestingly it appears to have been a slider fitted badge before it was converted to brooch fittings with an added fine chain and safety pin.

It came with a named photo of the owner of it as a brooch.

[magpie]

It looks like the chromed version of this badge converted to me from your pictures.

[JerryBB]

Thanks, chrome plated not silver plated.

I still think its a great badge.

these can't be that common to see, the flawed gaunt on a slider, post war pre 1953

[elwe23]

Here is another one. So all those broche ones are made for sweatheart ?

[JerryBB]

They might be for easier removal though I think the normal lugs or sliders are easy to use, so yes, probably for brooches or less likely a repair

[elwe23]

But maybe the broche makes it a real sweatheart one. That being said from my small knowledge on that subject, french commandos were giving their real beret badges to their sweatheart without any modifications.
Removing a slider just for that might be a pain, but it might be a pre broken one as you said.