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Old 17-11-18, 03:26 PM
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There has been much discussion about the WW1 all brass economy issue badges which were a labour saving measure.

I also have a number of WW1 era badges that are of a much lower quality and production standard. With the rush for an increase in wartime production, a number of variants exist where the badge is made using obsolete dies, has unpierced areas where the s/p was to be pierced and thin plate metal. Examples of many of these are included in this album: https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...hp?albumid=396

I recently found this Rifle Brigade badge which shows the poorer quality typical of the wartime production. The crown is unpierced, the slider is poor and it is not well struck. I suspect this is a small manually operated press producing badges individually press rather than a bespoke machine press producing them to a higher standard in bulk.

The badge in question has also had the slider brased on by someone who is not an expert which has also left a large blob of braise on the front of the badge.
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Old 17-11-18, 04:13 PM
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Interesting, thanks.
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Old 17-11-18, 06:59 PM
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There was a post in a thread recently that neatly divided the research that defined which type of badge when, and the physical definition of 'authentication' of a "genuine badge. This was explicitly discussed on page 86 inBulletin of the Military Historical Society, Vol 66, no 262 (November 2015).
My day time job is an a numismatist; coins have been faked since the first coins appeared in the 6th c BC. Many of these 'fake' copies were produced and used by ancient communities (as well as as late as the 18th century). It didn't bother them !
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Old 17-11-18, 07:16 PM
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Unfortunately it works both ways with original contemporary badges being dismissed as fakes because they don't match someone's thought of a 'genuine badge' but also modern fakes being of such a high quality that people are duped.
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