 |
Recent Books by Forum Members |
 |
|
|
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
25-06-11, 10:40 AM
|
||||
|
||||
all brass cameronians badge?
hi all
what are your thoughts on this badge? all brass cameronians badge? i have only ever seen these in white metal. is it a good one and why in brass? thanks bc 
|
|
#2
25-06-11, 01:43 PM
|
||||
|
||||
Cameronians
The Victorian Cameronians had a bronzed /blackened brass finished badge. I would think your example could well have been needlessly cleaned.
|
|
#3
25-06-11, 01:56 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Agreed!
looks like an early pattern blackened brass example, some damage/missing lower ribbon end.. I've seen a few of these which have been either cleaned or had the blackened finish removed? Either in ignorance or possibly by old soldiers on the change from BB to Wm? Andy
|
|
#4
26-06-11, 05:22 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
thanks guys
is there a way to re blacken the badge? is it a rare or scarce badge? as i have never seen one before (ive only been collecting british badges for 2 years) would this have been worn in the boer war? yes andy, unfortunately the lower ribbon is broken off thanks again bc
|
|
#5
28-06-11, 09:40 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Cameronians
Pity about the ribbon end, this badge as discussed before is Victorian and not very common, may I suggest a word with Dave the badge repairer with the possibility of a tassle addition and re-bronzing?
|
|
#6
28-06-11, 09:49 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
BC,
as mentioned above Dave could do an "Amy Whitehouse" on this one, the ribbon end could be sourced from a broken or even repro Wm Cameronians, of which there are plenty about... They are scarce and I should imagine a genuine blackened example would set you back £80-100+, so well worth sending to Tamworth! Andy P.S. for the more benefit of the more elderly or less "Hip" members Amy Winehouse had a hit (song, record or 78 in old speak  ) with "Back to Black".
|
|
#7
29-06-11, 03:26 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
thanks guys
i will take your advice and ship it off to dave. he is a whiz and has fixed several of my badges already. i will post a pic when it returns. should it be bronzed or should it be blackened? or are they the same? bc
|
|
#9
29-06-11, 09:21 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
thanks andy
bc
|
|
#10
30-06-11, 09:15 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Cameronians
I got my Cameronians about forty plus years ago with a collection of badges and at first I thought it was an OSD. The finish being bronzed brass.
|
|
#11
30-06-11, 09:28 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Always good to have healthy debate, however, the only bronzed Infantry ORs cap badge that I've ever come across is that of the PWRR. Which I admit is an "All Ranks" beret badge.. the norm for Infantry ORs whether Rifles or Territorial Bns I always thought was black?
There are several Yeomanry ORs bronzed badges! Perhaps the bronzed appearance is due to discolouration? K&K (KK630) seems to think they were blackened? To be safe I go with black! Andy
|
|
#12
30-06-11, 09:40 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Paint it black . . !
Henry Ford did much the same . . !
I agree with the Cameronians being black as they were a Rifle Regt, however looking further into it Bloomer's Scottish Regimental Badges1793-1971, page 18, item 102 states that they had an officer's glengarry c1881-7 in bronze. My first impressions of it being an OSD were not too far off.
|
|
|
|
 |
Linear Mode
