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Old 03-04-19, 06:26 AM
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I recently saw on eBay a RAF Kings Crown ANODISED badge with lugs sold for around £127.
Can any of our Anodised collectors especially RAF collectors confirm that this badge was made in A/A (possibly as a trial)?
Since then I have been shown another RAF A/A badge with lugs along with a WRAF Kings crown badge, small sew on type also in A/A.
Then another A/A came up on eBay with a "Buy it now" price which I snapped up at a very LOW price of less then £10.

Both the versions are different in make. The one I was shown and the one I brought (2nd picture) are of the same manufacture with NO maker mark.
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Old 03-04-19, 11:08 AM
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Chris will know the answer but the lugs on the left hand badge are of a type used by the initial trial badges - the riveting is a different but the shape of the lugs is the same. The metal lugs on the right hand badge are odd. Could they be replacements?
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Old 04-04-19, 05:51 AM
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The lugs on the right hand badge are the same style as Rhodesian made badges by Reuteler though they wouldn't have made KC RAF badges. Odd.
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Old 04-04-19, 06:07 AM
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Interesting Jerry. The lugs look a little like the Reutler type we see on Rhodesian badges. Additionally, on early anodised aluminium cap badges (by this I mean Kings Crown examples) they are not completely flat backed, void of relief - perhaps with the exception of the Royal Pioneer Corps - from memory.

Could we see an image of the front?
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Old 04-04-19, 06:18 AM
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I was watching this also Jerry, but steered clear due to the consensus of opinion that a RAF KC badge never existed in A/A. I've not got it to hand, but from memory the loops your 2nd photo look like the ones on my 'new' badge that was discussed here -https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=60590
Is the detail on the crown much poorer than the rest of the badge?
Got to say that the lugs on the recent ebay sale made me wonder.
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Old 04-04-19, 03:24 PM
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Images of front, crown, back and lugs,

I think that from the posts above this badge is properly a reproduction.
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Old 04-04-19, 03:50 PM
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Thanks for the images Jerry. If its a copy, someone appears to have gone to a lot of trouble producing it, but if others have bought similar as a 'copy' in full knowledge of such, then fair enough.

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