Parachute regiment KC query

[Jack8]

Thanks for posting those images, that is genuinely the first one I have seen without traces of lugs and I actively search for Parachute Regiment cap badges. I have not seen one with an unmarked slider either so would appreciate a pic.

As I said earlier in the thread, Gaunt produced Queens crown Para badges post war, and as we know they also produced kings crown badges with a slider from the evidence of the subject of this thread, from your pics and mine.

The questions that are impossible to answer for certain for me are; did they use old WW2 stock with lugs and remove them to add a slider (as per my example), did they also use old stock that had not been lugged and add a slider (as per your example) or did they continue to use the WW2 die/dies after the war and produce more badges from it. They may have used old stock and also produced more badges post war from the old dies.