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Old 12-08-20, 04:59 PM
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Hi guys is this a Welsh regiment cap badge? Looks like the Queen Vic crown on top also?

Many thanks as usual

Just to be clear I trade not collect, I hope this is ok IMG_20200714_182413.jpg
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Old 12-08-20, 05:12 PM
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An ‘old chestnut’. Fake or fantasy.

If you have the patience wade through this thread!

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ighlight=Welsh

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Old 12-08-20, 06:27 PM
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As Tims post a truly horrible badge -one for the trash bin
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Old 12-08-20, 09:08 PM
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I just read thru the thread. Wow stirred the storm right up didn't it. So to be clear, this badge is obviously a fake but not only a fake, a whole fantasy regiment also!?

Not a shock for me, I buy all sorts from all over the place and my knowledge in the military stiff isn't all that good, which is why I turn to you lot quite often. Thanks again

As you know I buy sell, mainly on ebay, so if anybody could tell me a suggested title? I was thinking something like "unknown Welsh regiment related military style fantasy badge"
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Old 12-08-20, 09:40 PM
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It’s not Welsh. It is not connected to any Welsh regiments in any way or any other regiment whatsoever.

It’s a product of a forgers imagination.

‘Fake fantasy glengarry badge’ would be a good title.

With a description of ‘this badge never existed, doesn’t belong to any Regiment and was dreamt up in the 1970s by the fakers purely to deceive collectors’.

It isn’t even a space filler and has no value in my opinion beyond scrap.
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Old 13-08-20, 10:43 AM
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VICTORIAN...UAAOSwW1JdOiE1
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The badge shown in this thread and the one shown on eBay appear to me to be different ones, or am I missing something?
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The badge being sold by Kaysmart is not the one shown in the opening post.

Kaysmart has been discussed before and one to be avoided.

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Old 15-08-20, 12:16 PM
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The badge being sold by Kaysmart is not the one shown in the opening post.

Kaysmart has been discussed before and one to be avoided.

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They look remarkably similar. Am I not seeing things too clear as the song goes?
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I'm thinking same design, just not the same example shown in both photos.
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I'm thinking same design, just not the same example shown in both photos.
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Old 15-08-20, 07:31 PM
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It’s not Welsh. It is not connected to any Welsh regiments in any way or any other regiment whatsoever.

It’s a product of a forgers imagination.

‘Fake fantasy glengarry badge’ would be a good title.

With a description of ‘this badge never existed, doesn’t belong to any Regiment and was dreamt up in the 1970s by the fakers purely to deceive collectors’.

It isn’t even a space filler and has no value in my opinion beyond scrap.
Hi,
Have seen a photo of what looks like this badge being worn. which would have been worn in white metal, by the 4th Volunteers battalion South Wales Borderers signalling detachment. The photo has the soldiers wearing the normal 4th VBSWB and the type mentioned in this post in their glengarry’s.I believe the brass type was sold by the SWB museum at some point, don’t have an example in my collection, as I have never seen one that I would be happy to buy.(also seen a reference to the white metal version in the Bryn Owen notes in The SWB museum)
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Old 15-08-20, 07:38 PM
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Kaysmart appears to have several of them for sale. None of them have the same tone or tarnish marks as the OP badge.
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Hi,
Have seen a photo of what looks like this badge being worn. which would have been worn in white metal, by the 4th Volunteers battalion South Wales Borderers signalling detachment. The photo has the soldiers wearing the normal 4th VBSWB and the type mentioned in this post in their glengarry’s.I believe the brass type was sold in by the SWB museum at some point, don’t have an example in my collection, as I have never seen one that I would be happy to buy.(also seen a reference to the white metal version in the Bryn Owen notes in The SWB museum)
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Would it not be infinitely more likely to be this badge currently for sale on British Army Badges? Very different from the badge shown. I would be interested to see the photograph you have.
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