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#1
06-11-19, 07:38 PM
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BEEWYSE LONDON - makers mark on Anodised Cap Badge
Any thoughts on this Wessex Brigade / Wessex Volunteers gold anodised aluminium cap badge with maker mark BEEWYSE LONDON
Tim
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07-11-19, 06:42 AM
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A quick search on beewyse brings up a NAM acquisition in 2004 of 1944 webbing marked Beewyse.
There is a wholesale & retail trade via mail order houses or internet company in Manchester: Beewyse Limited, incorporated 2012. company number: 08245587 director: SHEIKH, Basat Mahmood Beewyse Consultants (private) Limited is located in Lahore, Pakistan. My uniform buttons marked "Beewyse, London" are all for Middle Eastern countries. Any thoughts with this additional information?
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07-11-19, 07:28 AM
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The font appears to be very similar to the Gaunt London one.
Could they have been a sub division of Gaunts or were their sliders made by Gaunts ? The mark also appears on a Kuwati air force anodised badge. . Last edited by Mike H; 07-11-19 at 08:30 AM.
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#4
07-11-19, 09:00 AM
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The only other badge marked BEEWYSE LONDON I have is a metal Kuwait Defence Force badge.
Tim
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"Manui dat cognitio vires - Knowledge gives strength to the arm" "Better to know it but not need it than to need it and not know it!" "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest." Last edited by grey_green_acorn; 07-11-19 at 12:41 PM.
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07-11-19, 11:34 AM
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Thanks all for comments so far. This is a fairly common badge which was worn for more than 34 years from 1958-1992. All the badges I have seen are maker marked either J.R.GAUNT LONDON or J.R.GAUNT B'HAM but Chris Marsh also lists FIRMIN, DOWLER AND GROVE.
The BEEWYSE LONDON mark is surely unusual and a mystery with the timeline the key as the badge should have been discontinued at the latest by 1992 as follows: As the Wessex Brigade badge (K&K 2030) worn from circa 1958 to 1970 when regimental cap badges were adopted. As the Wessex Volunteers / Regiment (Rifle Volunteers) badge (K&K 2402 but same as brigade) worn from 1967 to 1992 when the two battalions were reformed into sub units of the PWRR and RGBW LI territorial battalions. Tim
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