Australian Corps of Signals - *THE SUPER RARE BADGE*

[slick_mick]

Australian Corps of Signals - *The Super Rare Hat Badge*

This is one of the rarest badges from the 1930 to 42 period.



Enjoy!

Mick

[Chris Walker]

Dear Mick

Delighted to see these badges. Cliff Lord told me that there was such a badge but I had never seen one before. Absolutely delighted.

Did you receive my email with a request for a picture of one on my backing??

Best wishes

Chris Walker

[slick_mick]

Hi Chris,

No email received.

These are probably amongst the rarest Australian badges of all time.

Mick

[Chris Walker]

Dear Mick

Sorry you did not get my email.

Could you send me your email address to my home email address and I will send it again with the attachment

ormer@vraic.freeserve.co.uk

Many thanks

Chris Walker

PS

I will add a photo to your friends box eventually

[Quicksilver]

Mine are a matching pair of collars but wondered if a cap had ever been made in the same style.

Quicksilver

[slick_mick]

Do you have a picture of yours? I'd be very interested to see them as they are super rare.

According to Cossum's book it is unknown if a hat badge exists.

Mic

[Quicksilver]

I have pix of the enameled ones which I will add now. Have some pix somewhere of the brass collars but if I cant find will scan over the weekend.
BRgds
Quicksilver

[slick_mick]

They look good - nice badges!

Mick

[Quicksilver]

Here you are Slick Mick. Lovely pair of Aus Sigs collars. Does any one have a cap? Suspect the cap was never made. Seem to remember Festburg indicating there was a cap but I have never seen one.
Quicksilver

[slick_mick]

Very nice - they are they 1st opposing collars I have seen in many years of collecting! I have never seen a cap badge (Cossum has it as unknown) so it may well be a case of a collar being worn as a cap badge.

Mick

[Tinto]

Hi Mick and Quicksilver,
I'm not sure where my badge fits in. Here's a picture.
Cheers, Tinto

[slick_mick]

It's the more commonly seen version.

Mick

[Tinto]

Thanks, Mick. I thought as much.
Cheers, Tinto

[Chris Walker]

Dear Slick-Mick and Quicksilver.

From the above thread, I now have a small query.

When the Australian Corps of Signals was formed on 1st January 1925 after breaking away from the Australin Engineers. There must have been a cap badge as the the roundal badge with the Certa Cito scroll at the bottom did not come into existance until I think 1931.

Now if as Quicksilver says in his thread he thought Festburg thought there was a cap badge but never seen. Slick-Mick says Cossum says unknown. There must have been something worn in the way of a cap badge during this six year period.

If the Australian Corps of Signallers had a cap badge and collars surely the Australian Corps of Signals as a new branch would have had a cap badge and collars and not just a collar badge used as a cap badge??????

Comments please on a white five pound note to the usual address.

Kind regards

Chris

[slick_mick]

Sadly I have nothing more to add....

Looks like it will require further research.

Mick