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Old 24-05-23, 12:09 PM
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Default Radnor ACF

sold as something it was obviously not, it most closely matches the Radnor ACF badge, complete with horrible weird felt background, though it is embroidered and the dragons tail not passing behind the wings as the other example I have seen and as illustrated in Waring's pamphlet \2 and is not shown in Rawlings' id and checklist.

I bought it thinking it was Radnor but...
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Old 25-05-23, 10:52 AM
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I will assume I am correct in thinking it is Radnor ACF.

here is the other version I have seen, image is from a thread on here, note the tail goes behind the wings
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Old 25-05-23, 11:44 AM
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Found this one in a 2010 thread :

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I picked this badge up today at Brecon fair, it had a label on the back saying it was RADNOR ACF,


https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ghlight=Radnor


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Old 25-05-23, 12:21 PM
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Found this one in a 2010 thread :





https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ghlight=Radnor


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thanks Mike, a better image than I had of that type.
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