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Tiptaft or Gaunt are possibilities.
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Very interesting, when I first saw it the picture it was a crudely made sweat heart badge made from a cap badge but when I looked again the head is facing the wrong way. Is that a collar badge with a small pin back? Hard to get a gauge of dementions from the picture. |
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33mm high. Enamel is deep & shiney, looks dull on photo.
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Had a look under my power loupe..its Tiptaft.
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Do you think this is a sweetheart made from a collar dog die? Does anyone have a Tiptaft marked example of a collar dog. The ones in post #4 dont appear to be marked but are the same type with the Canada legend added (1914 ish?)
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It is more than likely a modified collar.
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Thats what I mean. Do you think Tiptaft have taken one of their production collar dog pressings and made some of these enameled versions out of them ? This seems to have been made like this rather than being a conversion of an existing badge.
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It may also have been another company that purchased the Tiptaft badges and converted them. Many of these makers sold badges to the public.
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Sorry, should have clarified better. In my opinion your example is a collar badge that some one bought used or a company bought from the original manufacturer.
I highly doubt TipTaft did the final work of adding the color. More likely a small operation. There is very little attention to detail compared to some of the other sweet heart badges I have seen that are quite stunning. Again just my opinion. Does anyone know if back in the day (1914-1945) was there companies or jewlers around that offered this service as one off jobs? ie, a soldier or girlfriend/wife brought in a cap badge and the shop "jazzed" it up for them and added a pin back. I see so many 48th sweet heat badges, all different and differing degrees of quality work. I am starting to think this is how a lot of them were done. |
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Updated information to the first two pages.
I have added a few more pictures and information to my original work over the last few months for those that are interested.
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48th Highlanders Supply Issue Badge
Attached image is from a DND website which shows the supply issue badge for the 48th Highlanders, NSN 8455-20-007-3685. The NSN was catalogued 7 January 2013. It has the garter design with smooth 48.
It is different than the modern "garter" style badges shown in earlier posts to this thread, which I now assume are unit issue badges. Jim |
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Thanks JamesAA. The badge is significantly different from the earlier pattern buckle badge.
At one point the 48th badges were slider attachments. Hopefully the new issue has returned to lugs?
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From the NSN description: Attachment Method - Post and Cotter Pin. Jim |
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A point of information. When new badges are requested through the system, either a sealed sample would be used to guide the production or a new sample would be requested and approved. That would then guide production. There is no "permanent" sealed pattern to guide procurements. This leads to changes in the approved issue badges.
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