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Old 11-08-21, 09:48 AM
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Default Officer's Guards Machine Gun Regiment

hi all
was there a silver halmarked Officer's Guards Machine Gun Regiment collar?
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Old 12-08-21, 08:40 AM
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Is it not a small service dress cap badge? Silver like the other guards regiments?
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Old 12-08-21, 10:26 AM
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To be pedantic, Corps not Regiment.
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Battalion?
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Old 12-08-21, 12:06 PM
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Regiment.
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Machine Gun Guards.
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Old 28-08-21, 02:20 AM
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thanks guys for the replies.
what are your thoughts on these? are they genuine.
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1st two fake imho. The rest are sweetheart brooches ?
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Whilst I am not particularly familiar with these badges, the first pair are suspiciously over aged and questionable as mentioned.

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thanks guys as suspected
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They look fine to me apart from the one with a white enamel surround, which from colouration alone is a sweetheart brooch. As for “suspiciously over-aged”, the conspiracy theorists seem to strike again. It’s worth remembering that the badges are over a century old and if stowed away in an old box one would expect them to tarnish, get dusty and age generally in appearance. The pin backs seem to have been quite commonly sold by some officers outfitters, perhaps to facilitate the switching of badges between garments. Interestingly some photos also show the smaller badge in use on headdress as opposed to the larger, although it’s unclear if that was merely an expedient measure because the larger badge was lost or unavailable to the individual concerned.
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Old 11-09-21, 12:03 PM
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I find the different coloured backings to the first two a bit strange. Military outfitters pick'n'mix maybe.
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I think, from the photographs, that the first two badges in post seven are completely spurious, they appear to be brand new rather than over a century old.

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They look fine to me apart from the one with a white enamel surround, which from colouration alone is a sweetheart brooch. As for “suspiciously over-aged”, the conspiracy theorists seem to strike again. It’s worth remembering that the badges are over a century old and if stowed away in an old box one would expect them to tarnish, get dusty and age generally in appearance. The pin backs seem to have been quite commonly sold by some officers outfitters, perhaps to facilitate the switching of badges between garments. Interestingly some photos also show the smaller badge in use on headdress as opposed to the larger, although it’s unclear if that was merely an expedient measure because the larger badge was lost or unavailable to the individual concerned.
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