West Yorkshire Regiment.

[High Wood]

I have had what I thought to be a right West Yorkshire Regiment cap badge for some years but have never been entirely happy with it. I bought a second West Yorkshire cap badge this morning and putting the two together the differences are obvious. The fake has a more horizontal tail; straighter lower back legs and is running across a bagette shaped grassy knoll. There is also a much narrower space between the T of West and the Y of Yorkshire. The metal is generally thinner, bendier and the title scroll attaches to lugs on the white metal horse section of the badge.

They may of course both be wrong. Your thoughts please.

Hi there,

I'm fairly sure both yours are genuine examples, this badge was worn for over 50 years and was made by many different manufactures so there are a load of variations.

I have attached a card of a number (not all) of my other ranks West Yorks cap badges and each is different, there are some cast examples at the bottom which from my logic are also genuine having being worn by the Regiment (bearing in mind their service in both the middle and far east).

Cheers,

Marcus

[High Wood]

Thank you, but I think that if you could actually handle them both you would see that one is a nice solid badge whilst the other can be bent out of shape quite easily.

[2747andy]

I agree with Marcus, both look fine, one is just better made than the other!

Andy

[mike c]

hi i agree with both andy and marcus i too have both versions of this badge and after seeing these badges at many fairs im pretty sure both are ok hope so because as i said i have both versions

[AndyC_65]

Fascinating thread!

Are there any known fake/copies?

I too have a small selection, but assumed some of them must be bad 'uns.

Am struggling as to how many different badges can all be genuine?

Cheers,

Andy C