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Old 04-06-18, 10:49 AM
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Hi All
I recently bought this full-size RN officers cap badge online, thinking it was a 'salty' regular cap badge but when I received it, it turned out to be silver-wire rather than gold-wire. Anybody know what this was for? Nurses?
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Old 04-06-18, 11:04 AM
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not nurses ,sometimes the gold wire appears silver ,not aware of any silver wire badges for the Royal Navy.
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Old 04-06-18, 11:49 AM
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Hi RBJ
No, I can't agree with that. I have well over 100 bullion badges in my collection and have handled many more times that number over the years, and this is definitely silver.
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Alex
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Old 08-06-18, 10:54 AM
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Thanks so what is is significance of the silver wire ?
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Old 08-06-18, 06:06 PM
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Alex,

It is interesting as I have what looks like an Admirals cap with silver bullion 'oakleaf' embroidery but no cap badge. I'm not able to get to it at the moment but will post a picture as soon as I can. It has a standard RN ribbed plastic top so I cannot understand how it can be anything other than a cap of one of the maritime organisations.I am aware that RNXS Officers wore a silver coloured rank badge but as far as I know they only wore berets with the metal officers cap badge of the RNXS.

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Old 09-06-18, 05:44 AM
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Thanks Fred. RNXS may be worth looking into. Maybe they use caps for certain occasions?
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