4th Queens Own Hussars

[denis pannett]

My 5th doubtful, should there be an apostrophe before the S of Queens? My other ones have loops and no apostrophe? Slider looks good with crimp some way down it. All comments welcome. Thanks Denis

[Luke H]

If you don’t want it please send it to me.

[denis pannett]

Thanks Luke, I take it from that that you think it is good? Was it just the later ones with sliders that had apostrophes in Queens? Regards Denis

[Luke H]

I’d go further and say I’m sure it’s good.

I’m not quite sure I follow sorry? Do you have a picture of the ‘earlier ones’ you think are different?

[denis pannett]

Originally Posted by Luke H

I’d go further and say I’m sure it’s good.

I’m not quite sure I follow sorry? Do you have a picture of the ‘earlier ones’ you think are different?

Attached photos Luke and the slider one has QUEEN'S whereas the lugged is just QUEENS and a different die. I also have the mint one from the White Collection which is identical to the lugged one I have shown. Denis

[Luke H]

The badge on the right is fake.

I have seen what I regard as a genuine OSD sans apostrophe.

[denis pannett]

Originally Posted by Luke H

The badge on the right is fake.

I have seen what I regard as a genuine OSD sans apostrophe.

Interesting Luke, I have now looked more carefully at both my lugged versions and they are slightly different, in crown size particularly. I attach photos of my White Collection one from 1902? still with it's original finish next to the one you think is a fake and looking at the lugs, I now suspect you are right though sadly I had no doubts about it before! Incidentally, both are the same size, just photo distortion. Denis

[Luke H]

I like the badge on the right, it looks very similar to the OSD die.

[Drmiggy]

These are my ones Denis

[denis pannett]

Originally Posted by Drmiggy

These are my ones Denis

Very nice DRMIGGY, very similar to mine with slider and the apostrophe I think. Interesting that the slider version seems more common than the lugged one which surprises me considering the date.
Regards Denis

[Drmiggy]

The QVC version has no apostrophe, so is it possible that the first KC ones had none and the later ones did. I know the scroll ones came later and the non scroll ones very only in service a short time, but was there 2 versions?

[Drmiggy]

I have attached a few different crowned ones and you can see the apostrophe on the latest 3, but not on the QVC one.

I have no idea why some badges are on their side, all 4 were loaded the same way?