WW1 Canadian Engineers cap Badge.No holes in crown?

[shane bannatyne]

Hi,Shane here.I'm looking for some help regarding a WW1 Canadian Engineers cap badge I just bought on ebay.My issue is there are not any holes or openings in the crown at the top.I've been looking online at other C.E caps to compare mine with and found there more than a few variations,but have not found any the same as mine.Anyway,any help will be greatly appreciated. Cheers. shane

[Bill A]

Hi Shane, welcome to the Forum. The back of a badge ususlly tells more about the badge than the obverse. Could you post an image of the back?

[shane bannatyne]

Hi,Shane here.I'm looking for some help regarding a WW1 Canadian Engineers cap badge I just bought on ebay.My issue is there are not any holes or openings in the crown at the top.I've been looking online at other WW1 C.E caps to compare mine with and found there are quite a few variations,but have not found any without the openings.The badge is maker marked O.B Allan.Any help identifying this badge would be greatly appreciated. Cheers. Shane

[shane bannatyne]

Hi Bill,Shane here.Thanks for replying to my post.Here's the back of the badge.I would just like to let you know that when made this post yesterday I didn't see it come up on one of the boards so assumed I screwed up somehow,so I posted it again today only to find after that my initial post made it.First post jitters I guess!Anyway,thanks for your help. Cheers

[whizzbang]

Hi Shane - what are the dimensions of the badge? Cheers, Ian.

[LLWill]

Yours is a good badge. It is the "large" beaver, wide wreath, non-voided crown type. The engineers have a crazy number of variants of their badge.

[Bill A]

Hi Shane, I will merge the two threads. (The Forum controls the first few posts by new members to protect against bots and spammers.)
Sorry, where is the O.B. Allan marking on the badge?

[whizzbang]

Originally Posted by Bill A

Hi Shane, I will merge the two threads. (The Forum controls the first few posts by new members to protect against bots and spammers.)
Sorry, where is the O.B. Allan marking on the badge?

Hard to see but looks like it is at about 8 o'clock

[Bill A]

Thanks Ian. Still having problems seeing it....
Interesting that the O.B. Allan badges appear to be using flat sheet metal type lugs like the Ellis lugs.

[Phillip Herring]

Originally Posted by Bill A

Thanks Ian. Still having problems seeing it....
Interesting that the O.B. Allan badges appear to be using flat sheet metal type lugs like the Ellis lugs.

I have several OB Allan badges with the sheet metal lugs. I think I have mentioned that in previous posts.

Phil

[shane bannatyne]

Hi Ian,thanks for your reply. It measures approximately 1 7/8" High x 1 5/8" Wide. SHANE

[Bill A]

Phil, I think there needs to be an examination of the idea that certain lugs are only attributable to a particular maker.

[shane bannatyne]

Hi Larry,thanks for your help.As you say,there's several variations with these C.E caps.I only just noticed the crown issue and I'm glad it checked out fine.I've waited quite a while for a good one to turn up.This one has very good detail to the beaver and a nice ornery look on his face,whereas alot of the C.E caps I've seen the beavers don't have much detail & don't look very much like beavers at all,more like a bump on a log or sh*t on a stick! Anyway,thanks again for your help. Cheers. Shane

[shane bannatyne]

Hi Bill.Thanks for the post issue.Unfortunately I don't have a digital camera to take a closer photo,so I've used the pics from the auction.But the O.B shows up on the left side on the leaf behind the last 'E' of the reversed Engineers. Thanks. Shane