Victorian Kings Royal Rifle and Rifle Brigade Cap badge help

[funkeegirl81]

I will contact them, it was a little while ago as bought them then moved house and they were packed away until recently while sorting out the new house. From my experience of auction houses even with their write up items are sold as seen. Still no harm in sending an email.

[funkeegirl81]

Thank you all so much for your help, I contacted the auction house today, who reply straight away. they are unable to refund my money back to me as they have already paid this to then vendor but they are issuing me with a credit note on my account which will be taken for payments of any other items I buy form then in the future. which is a lot more than I was expecting.

[Frank Kelley]

Certainly not a saleroom favourite, for me at least, if you do go back, be very careful before you choose to bid.

[funkeegirl81]

I will be staying away from buying any cap badges from them that’s for sure! But there isn’t a other way to get any money back. They want the cap badges returned to them so my guess is they will sell them again but hopefully will have them labels as reproduction badges.

[Frank Kelley]

Well, it's certainly not a saleroom I'd want to use, all I can say is examine anything you are interested in very carefully before parting with your money in future.

[Frank Kelley]

If you read my post you can clearly see that is certainly not what I said, what I did say was simply that the badge was spurious and lacked detail of an original.
I certainly did not suggest that anything was obscured in any way whatsoever.

Originally Posted by Luke H

I think they’re both real but someone has painted them with thick gloss paint which as Frank says has obscured the detail and is why the blacking is chipped on the back of the KRRC (chemical blacking doesn’t chip). Both badges have had their loops replaced IMO... which probably explains why they’ve been painted.