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Old 04-07-21, 08:52 AM
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Default UNKNOWN BADGE??

Can you id this badge please??
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Old 04-07-21, 08:58 AM
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Queen Mary's Own Yeomanry? (Surrey Yeomanry).
But I don't know how it could be, of that manufacture.

Too small for an arm badge?

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Old 04-07-21, 09:16 AM
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Its the Mercian Yeomanry arm badge.
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Old 04-07-21, 09:56 AM
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It went for £35 - about right probably.
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I was the under bidder!!!!

Andy P and myself have been chasing an example since 2010 (and neither of us won it today!)

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...rcian+yeomanry

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Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry NCO arm badge.

The badge design was unpopular and withdrawn as it (vaguely) resembled the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) emblem. Hence pretty rare?

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Old 04-07-21, 10:13 AM
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A Google check showed it going for £4.99 from "British Military Badges" but out of stock.
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Old 04-07-21, 10:45 AM
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They don't turn often, £30 odd about right. If you saw one for £4,.99 . . . grab it!
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Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry Sergeant's arm badge. I've got two, but not for sale. Never saw one in my time. The Squadron Sergeant Major of my QOMY Squadron when I joined, and who was in place right up to amalgamation over ten years after I left said he never saw it worn.
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Old 04-07-21, 02:54 PM
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Fairly scarce arm badge - nice looking embellishment.
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The blank slider badges are, to the best of our knowledge, made under licence for collectors after the MOD allowed firms to reproduce badges no longer in production. The issue badges were Gaunt and Firmin, the latter being the scarcer of the two.
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Old 05-07-21, 08:12 AM
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Sounds about right, thank you.
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