Sharpshooters Bazzaar cast or not?

[orasot]

Originally Posted by Keith Blakeman

Thanks Wilf, Lot 157. I paid less than a quarter!

Nice one mate, we all love the odd bargain now & then, good find.
Wilf.

[PeterA]

Originally Posted by Keith Blakeman

I picked this badge up quite cheaply the other day, mainly because the listing stated it's height at 50mm, much larger than the collar badge of the same pattern. When it arrived today it's weight aroused suspicions as well as the funny looking patina so in the Goddards it went to reveal a silver plated example as I suspected.

What is it though, an arm badge? If so what period.

Thanks.

I wish I hadn't asked the seller how high it was.

It appears to be the NCO's arm badge from 1939-1961 that has been modified with brooch type fixing...and perhaps silver plated to boot.

I saw it as an overlarge sweetheart.

PeterA (under-bidder)

[PeterA]

Originally Posted by 2747andy

Well I think I now have an example of the badge from which this cast/theatre made item came from... ?? Seems then there was a Bi-metal pattern? I was wrong yet again!

I feel better already.

Here is an image of Lt Col The Earl of Dunraven and Mountearl in 1902, the first Colonel of the Sharpshooters.

He is sporting the aforementioned bi-metal officers collars and, as was the fashion, wears the collar as a cap badge in lieu of the 'Wreathed SS' official cap badge.

PeterA

[PeterA]

Originally Posted by PeterA

I wish I hadn't asked the seller how high it was.

It appears to be the NCO's arm badge from 1939-1961 that has been modified with brooch type fixing...and perhaps silver plated to boot.

I saw it as an overlarge sweetheart.

PeterA (under-bidder)

NCO's arm badge. Nope, it was silver in service and always worn with a geen felt backing. The adjacent collar for size comparison.

PeterA

[PeterA]

...and whilst on the subject of Sharpshooter NCO arm badges.

In 1961 the '3/4 County of London Yeomanry 'was amalgamated with the 'Kent Yeomanry' to form the 'Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)'

Even though the Queen was some eight years in to her reign the new arm badge, now sporting the prancing horse of Kent, was still made with a King's crown, changing some time later to a Queen's crown.

Any views or comments on other regiments, of the time, of this practise.

PeterA