Devonshire sweetheart brooch

[Rob Miller]

A new find, its standard cap badge size, the gilt crown and circlet is a painted? coating on to the white metal pressing rather than a separate braised on piece found on regular bi-metal badges. Because the brooch fittings are on different parts of the star you can see its never had any other sort of fittings so it must have been originally made as a brooch.

But interestingly its from the same die as this bronzed badge I've shown on here before which originally had a slider but has been converted to lugs, I'm still of the opinion that this is a privately purchased 4th TA BN or OTC cap badge.

Both are quite light in weight presumably from thinner sheet than issue badges.

Has anyone seen this with other Regiments?

Rob