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Tony,
it is one I would hang onto, it has IMO been cast from an original... When is something which you'll never probably find out..... Andy |
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Sharpshooters
Is this badge an OSD with the bronzing cleaned off.
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#18
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I think this badge went out of use before OSD bronzed badges were introduced?
Andy |
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Here's a bi-metal pattern:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sharpshooters-Imperial-Yeomanry-Cap-Badge-/350466549916?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash= item51996f289c Peter |
#20
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Whilst I'm a regular customer of this vendor, I think this one is another misdescribed item from an auction house! I think they only came in GM?
Andy |
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Casting
It looks as thought the original was cast from a specimen like the bi-metal badge.
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I tend to agree and this changes my opinion! The link above shows a very rough, cast badge! Although I may be wrong I think the bi-metal offering is a wrong un and the badge at the start of the post seems to be cloned from it?
Andy |
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Casting badges from originals
This may be slightly off course from the original thread, but I have a silver officers Cambridgeshire cap badge that was cast using a bi-metal other ranks Cambridgeshire for a mould, the scroll which is usually in gilding metal is visible in the cast on the officers badge.
As to whether this is an original item can only be guaged from the fact that it came in a cake tin with a lot of other cloth and metal badges mainly from the East Anglian region, all the others were original which had no doubt been collected some fifty years ago. My point is that I would not dismiss this badge as a copy/fake. |
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Andy Last edited by 2747andy; 28-05-11 at 09:16 PM. |
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As to the linked badge being original I have no idea Regards Tony.
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For Christopher night night son. |
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"Swoon", to faint or become ecstatic............. The latter quite often! Andy |
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the verdigris (on the badge in the first post) looks nothing like real verdigris, more like paint. Never saw a theater made sandcast badge with those lugs either.
Rgds, Thomas. |
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I am slightly confused (nothing usual there then) about this badge. Was it only ever in g/m or is the bi-metal pattern also valid?
K&K say: 3rd County of London (Sharp Shooters) (2) Crossed rifles surmounted by an Imperial crown. Below a scroll inscribed 'Sharpshooters'. For other-ranks. In gilding metal [Fig.1363].' Whereas... F. Wilkinson - Badges of the British Army 1820-1960, says: '[Fig.406] - Sharpshooters BI' I am wondering if some of the braver forum members might have examples of this badge (g/m & bi-metal) for us to tear to pieces, please? Peter. |
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