17th/21st Lancers Motto

[11th Armoured]

Hi all,

not had much opportunity to do much 'badgey' stuff recently, but I did buy a small group of assorted badges a couple of days ago (mainly for an RAF cap badge as a pressie for the father-in-law) that included this 17th/21st Lancers Motto.

It's in fairly good nick apart from a missing slider and seems similar-looking to several others I've seen posted here and elsewhere, but this one is quite noticeably 'domed' rather than being generally flat.

So, apart from a general question as to whether it's a real one rather than a fake/copy, do people think this is just the result of a bit of over-enthusiastic shaping to sit on a beret or sidecap or something else?

Cheers,
Kevin