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Old 24-08-22, 09:02 AM
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Default Opinions please on 1st VB The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

..yet again struggling to find any examples.
DeadSpartain has a similiar one stating victorian, not sure though !
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Old 24-08-22, 03:09 PM
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Fake fake and fake. The Al Johnson lipped sheep from the Martin Marsh catalogue.
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Old 24-08-22, 03:10 PM
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https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ctureid=113129

A genuine one in BB.
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Old 24-08-22, 03:18 PM
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Old 24-08-22, 06:25 PM
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Alan’s photo is a bit dark. Here we have a blackened version, a whitemetal one with blades and an ex-Hugh King blackened with an attached scroll, I’ve never seen another.

All Gaunt I beleive.
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Old 24-08-22, 06:28 PM
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Alan’s photo is a bit dark. Here we have a blackened version, a whitemetal one with blades and an ex-Hugh King blackened with an attached scroll, I’ve never seen another.

All Gaunt I beleive.
As Keith rightly states, all are Gaunt-made badges.

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Old 24-08-22, 06:35 PM
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Alan’s photo is a bit dark. Here we have a blackened version, a whitemetal one with blades and an ex-Hugh King blackened with an attached scroll, I’ve never seen another.

All Gaunt I beleive.
Another example here with the attached VB scroll, from a 2015 post by former member 2747andy:

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...2&postcount=26

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Old 24-08-22, 06:42 PM
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I would suspect the w/m with blades is for an officers hat. Alas VB are not well recorded.
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Old 24-08-22, 06:47 PM
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I would be very confident the WM on (double) blades is other ranks. Quite a few early Volunteers badges are on these long thin double blades which I have also heard referred to as butterfly tangs.
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Old 24-08-22, 06:54 PM
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I would be very confident the WM on (double) blades is other ranks. Quite a few early Volunteers badges are on these long thin double blades which I have also heard referred to as butterfly tangs.
I have a couple of 17th London Battalion ORs' badges fitted with double blades. I like the poetic 'butterfly tangs'. Sounds like a martial arts weapon.

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