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16-06-10, 09:57 PM
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KLR VB
Since there seems to be an increasing interest in VB badges, I've just put up a little album of KLR VB cap badges.
I'll get them photographed properly one day - including reverses, but you will have to put up with scans for now. I'd be grateful for any comments. I'm also particularly intertsted to know about - and see - officer's versions. J 
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17-06-10, 08:09 AM
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A fascinating subject, one of the difficulties being that the subject has not been covered in detail in any publications in the past so that if you collect to a particular regiment you may be aware of some of the V.B. badges but there will be others that you are not aware of ( and then when you do discover an item in another collection the chances of finding an example for your own collection are remote )
The scroll less badges worn by the 4th and 6th V.B.`s of the Liverpools are most interesting.Harry Usher had a number in his Kings Liverpool collection ( see photo) but I wonder how many collectors have come across examples in the past and thought they were broken badges. Most envious of KLR`s 7th ( Isle of Man ) V.B. cap badge, I have been after one for 40 odd years. P.B.
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17-06-10, 08:19 PM
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Matti, regarding "keep them coming" - the only one that I hope might (with luck) still come is the 5VB KC !
8th Foot - the 4th / 6th VB has two lugs behind it, so if one saw the back of it, it wouldn't have been mistaken for a broken scroll type. There is a complicated story behind this; the regulars toyed with the idea of a horse without scroll for the new cap badge but then opted for the version with a scroll. However, it looks as though the VBs jumped the gun and went for that idea - proven by NA documents, but I reckon that they soon adopted a cap badge based on the 1896 pattern. However, it may well have been worn on the collar. As a curious footnote, I'm told that this one was worn as a collar badge by "soldiers" / actors / extras in the 1955 film Storm over the Nile ! Last edited by KLR; 17-06-10 at 09:00 PM. Reason: my bl**dy awful typing !
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17-06-10, 08:43 PM
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Well done Julian, a nice growing collection since I last saw them. At last with the albums, genuine VB forage/fsc badges are now available for all to see thanthere are in any publication to date.
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17-06-10, 09:57 PM
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Hi Julian and others,
Lovely badges you have, thanks for showing them. Your comments on the scroll-less 4th/6th VB have me wondering about this one of mine. I had thought it was a collar badge. How does it compare with yours? Thanks, Tinto
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