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Cast White Metal Sphinx with Slider.
Can anyone identify this sphinx badge please?
Of cast white metal it measures 38mm wide x 20mm high. I can't identify this style of sphinx as being worn by any unit although it bears a resemblance to a Gordon Highlanders OSD collar badge I've seen an illustration of although that has a tail. Theres no indication of any part of this badge having been removed or broken off. A pagri or fez or a servants or mess waiters headress badge, a badge of a non- British unit, just a little fantasy piece? |
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It does not have typical Indian made features, particularly that British made slider. I don't know what it could be, but likely some fantasy piece.
CB
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It's a strange one, with that good quality rather than locally made slider.
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Some images showing more detail of the slider, it looks a little rougher in these but does look like a British badge slider, slightly tapered.
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As a long time Indian Army collector, I have never seen a slider like that on any Indian badge. This of course does not make it impossible that is Indian, but....
I just can't think of any explanation for that badge. CB
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I have to agree. 'Indian made', which covers the whole subcontinent, almost invariably have thin cast 'lugs': small rectangular projections made as part of the original casting, with holes crudely bored in them. Occasionally, one finds Indian made with wire loops/lugs but I don't think I've ever seen one with a slider, and I've been looking at them off and on for 40 years.
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Tutankhamun's Territorial's.
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"It's just gone noon half past monsoon on the banks of the River Nile" - possibly locally made in NI for this lot back in 1974?
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Mystery solved!
CB
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