RMF Cap Badge-Friday Afternoon or Fake

[MH331]

This cap badge came on a cap that belonged to a RMF casualty. Its been in another collectors hands for 30 odd years. It has been badly miss-struck and the tiger miss-applied. The Tiger is not a fatty compared to other originals I own. So its either a Friday afternoon badge or a fake that the previous owner added to the cap.

Opinions welcome.

Mark

[tonyb]

Looks fine to me.
Tony.

[Luke H]

I have always regarded this type of RMF as wartime manufacture due to the lack of finesse to the design and poor quality construction. Nonetheless 100% genuine.

[MH331]

Luke, Tony,

Thank you both for your expertise.

Kind regards

Mark

[Alan O]

A decade ago I was discussing RMF badges with a old dealer. He had bought a box of RMF badges in the 1960's still in their paper wraps with a contract note for a Irish company sub-contracted by Gaunts. He said they were all such poor quality and you could bend them in half. period badges but wartime subcontracted to companies that had not mad badges before so poor quality compared the peacetime.

[billy]

I have one very similar (or had?) With solder visable, but had the holes to rear - as you say a Friday special!

All the best billy

[Frank Kelley]

Just out of interest, what sort of cap was it, did it show any signs of ever having another badge upon it and where is it now?

Originally Posted by MH331

This cap badge came on a cap that belonged to a RMF casualty. Its been in another collectors hands for 30 odd years. It has been badly miss-struck and the tiger miss-applied. The Tiger is not a fatty compared to other originals I own. So its either a Friday afternoon badge or a fake that the previous owner added to the cap.

Opinions welcome.

Mark

[MH331]

Here is the cap. I am not replacing the badge it’s part of its history.

[Luke H]

Originally Posted by MH331

Here is the cap. I am not replacing the badge it’s part of its history.

Lovely cap and badge. 100% agree.

The only thing I’d be tempted to do is a slightest dab of WD40 on the verdigris to stop it progressing further and possibly damaging the badge in time.

[leigh kitchen]

Originally Posted by MH331

Here is the cap. I am not replacing the badge it’s part of its history.

Agreed.