King Emperors Camp 1911-INDIA-1912 and Prince Of Wales Camp 1903-INDIA-1906

[arrestingu]

Thought i would share these two large officer badges.
unable to find other examples ....
best wishes
Steve

[Tinto]

Originally Posted by arrestingu

Thought i would share these two large officer badges.
unable to find other examples ....
best wishes
Steve

Very nice, Steve.
Thanks for sharing. Rest of board looks good too. Any chance of showing it?
Cheers, John

[arrestingu]

sure thing buddy

[Tinto]

Thank you, Steve.
A very attractive display!
Regards, John

[Alex Rice]

Some superb quality pieces there
Cheers,
Alex

[badgecollector]

hi steve
can you tell me what this badge is?
ive seen one like this locally and couldnt work out what it is
cheers
bc

[High Wood]

Both badges relate to tours of India by the then Prince of Wales, later king George Vth. The second, 1911/12, badge is for the Delhi Durbar and tour of India.

https://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010/...rma-by_15.html

I forgot to add, superb badges.

[Toby Purcell]

Originally Posted by arrestingu

Thought i would share these two large officer badges.
unable to find other examples ....
best wishes
Steve

They are superb badges. I’d only ever seen one of them before and I imagine that they must be quite rare. Is it known what item of dress they were worn upon? They seem an odd shape for headdress.

Lovely things Steve, thanks for sharing - Regards Mark

[High Wood]

Originally Posted by Toby Purcell

They are superb badges. I’d only ever seen one of them before and I imagine that they must be quite rare. Is it known what item of dress they were worn upon? They seem an odd shape for headdress.

They were possibly worn on both civilian and military clothing. I imagine that they were rather like back stage passes or enclosure admission badges at Ascot, only of a more select nature and gave access to the Royal encampment. A sort of high end security pass.

Either that, or they were issued as a distinguishing badge by those officers, security staff, caterers, bearers, etc. who were employed in the camp. They probably had lesser quality badges for the bearers and sweepers.

[arrestingu]

..i have his name somewhere he was a VC holder and ADC to the king and Prince.
regards Steve

[Toby Purcell]

Originally Posted by High Wood

They were possibly worn on both civilian and military clothing. I imagine that they were rather like back stage passes or enclosure admission badges at Ascot, only of a more select nature and gave access to the Royal encampment. A sort of high end security pass.

Either that, or they were issued as a distinguishing badge by those officers, security staff, caterers, bearers, etc. who were employed in the camp. They probably had lesser quality badges for the bearers and sweepers.

All good and interesting theories, but I’d really like to know for sure. I imagine that there might be photos somewhere of them in use. A lot of money must have been spent procuring them so I think it’s unconscionable for them to have been hidden away.