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Old 11-04-16, 08:00 PM
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Looking forward to it Ron.

Can never get enough of seeing your badges.

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Roy, here are my examples of that badge. Both silver plate and gilt, the one on the left gilt gone and now has dark laquer finish. It has solid copper rivets and s/p lugs. The other with Anderson plate which is integeral to the star, has tubular rivets and silver lugs.

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Hi Ron,

Wonderful to see these two and interesting that they are not exactly the same. Also nice to see an Anderson plate on the one.

I'm assuming these badges are really quite rare, as you tend not to see too many about.

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Roy, Dead Spartan has one for sale £210, Allied & Axis a KC version £465.
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3rd Forfarshire (Dundee Highland) RV ORs glengarry badge. 1883-1887.
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Very nice badge Ron, possibly the 3rd are the rarest BW RV badges? I'm away from home so don't have my ref books, but is it only the 3rd that have that style of St.Andrew, and do 3rd badges only have that style of St.Andrew?

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Bryan, that is the old style St. Andrew similar to the 42nd collar badges worn 1878-1882 CH 1157.

Here is a pipers plaid brooch of the Dundee Highlanders R.V.

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ORs glengarry badge ET spelling variant. Bottom scrolls sweeping upwards, deeply struck badge with St. Andrews details polished.

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Another ET spelling variant, die-cast in low grade silver.
Crisp lettering and details for a cast badge. Bottom scrolls upward and recurving.
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3rd ET spelling variant KK 655.
Used but with little wear, St. Andrew still has his fingers.
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I have previously listed this badge as 3VBRH.
I now have a new attribution of 3rd (Militia) Bn Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 1881-1908. Victorian officer's bonnet badge.
A fine and rare die-struck silver example. Sphinx resting on a blank tablet. Two long silver loops to the reverse, the letter 'S' hand engraved behind the plinth.
Ex Trevor Shaw.
Ex Hugh King.
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Below is a photo of this badge in the T.D.Shaw collection taken in the 1980s at a Crown Imperial event in Sheffield.

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2nd (Angus) VBRH 1887-1901.
Bottom scrolls read 2nd VOLr BATTn.
Bloomer p74.
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2nd (Angus) VBRH ORs white metal glengarry badge 1887-1902.
This example with voided motto and center. Well executed work skilfully leaving a peripheral wall thickness around each letter. Black velvet backing for display purposes only.

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Great badge! Do you think it was done by the badge owner or for him by an "expert" rather than manufactured in that style? Makes you wonder what his superiors made of it! You also wonder what the original owners of these Victorian badges would makes of the prices that their badges make today.
Thanks for sharing another cracking badge Ron.

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Great badge! Do you think it was done by the badge owner or for him by an "expert" rather than manufactured in that style? Makes you wonder what his superiors made of it! You also wonder what the original owners of these Victorian badges would makes of the prices that their badges make today.
Thanks for sharing another cracking badge Ron.

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Bryan, this was not stamped out by the manufacturers it was done by hand, fret saw and needle file marks are evident. It would have taken many hours of work by whom we will never know?
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