Sphinx "EGYPT" White Metal Collar Badge.

[leigh kitchen]

Is it possible to identify the specific regiment by which this collar badge was worn please?
I know that the sphinx "EGYPT" was used by a number of regiments but I'm hoping that a Sphinx badge expert will be able to tell me from the image without having to check the books, otherwise I'll start working through "Churchill's".
Fitted with w/e lugs it is presumably a "regular's" collar badge, it came to me on a field service cap which bears Victorian Crown General Service buttons.
(I haven't measured the badge, I'll update this post with measurements).

[manchesters]

I can tell you its not the Manchester Regiment, other than that its time to get the book out!

regards

[leigh kitchen]

Yes, I'd better start riffling through, a pre-riffle guess is that it's Lincolnshire / Royal Lincolnshire Regiment from the style of sphinx.

[tonyb]

I have it down as a SWB FSC/Collar badge.
Tony.

[leigh kitchen]

Ah, thanks - I'll check them first in "Churchill's".
It's come on a plain dark blue FSC but as I say, the cap has QVC white metal GS buttons and so presumably a mixture of regular's badge with Volunteer's buttons.

[stenoyab]

I see them sold as SWB, so I assume the sellers are correct.

But the SWB badges always seem to have a Sphinx with breasts exposed, the same as the Gloucesters, Lincolnshire have a plain chest (although it was exposed on their letter head crests).

Is this just random makers quirks, or changes in regimental design?.

[leigh kitchen]

I need to check the books and articles re. male and female sphinx's etc and compare book illustrations to try and work this one out - I was taking the lazy option and hoping to get a quick and easy resolution to this one by asking for an answer from someone who specialises in the insignia of whichever regiment wore this collar.
I raise more questions than I provide answers, as usual.

[tim]

IMO, its Lincolnshire or Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, Male with tail tucked in. Tim.

[leigh kitchen]

Thank you. It's obviously not appropriate for the Volunteers period FSC but it's motivated me now to have a closer look at such insignia.

[badjez]

The same pattern of collar badge was worn by both Lincs Regt and South Wales Borderers.
It was item CB1964 in the 1929 PVCN, & item CB1108 in the 1933 PVCN. By 1936 it was CB 0560, unchanged by 1940.
Collar badges were not worn during the war and post-war Lincs Regt became 'Royal' and a new pattern was introduced.

Stephen.

[leigh kitchen]

Thank you - next step is to dig out a photo of a cWWI Drummer to see if I can identify his collar sphinx from the info you chaps have provided and a look at "the book".

[grey_green_acorn]

Leigh,
1st Battalion South Wales Borderers - photo taken Chatham 1914.

Tim

[leigh kitchen]

Thank you.........

[leigh kitchen]

Sphinx collar badges, GS buttons (can't make out which crown), no shoulder titles, drummers cords of a no-royal regIntent.
(A & G Taylor, photographers by appointment to the Late Queen Victoria and enjoying patronage of King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and other members of the royal family, branches in Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby and Barnsley).

[stenoyab]

Leigh your photo shows the Sphinx without breasts exposed, the 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers - photo taken Chatham 1914 as best as I can enlarge it appears to be breasts exposed.

Honestly its not a fetish on my part, different regiments used different versions of the Sphinx on their waist belt clasps, exposed or not.