Named Life Guards badge.

[tonyb]

Would anyone care to comment on this one?
Looks to be a genuine item IMO.
Help needed to match name with Regiment if possible.
Cheers Tony.

[Alan O]

Tony

A nice example with the correct hanging 'V' in the cypher.

The replacement of the blades with a slider is a common modification. It does rather beg the question why they had blades in the first place!

Alan

[tonyb]

Alan, I assume the badges being removed from the cap for polishing, blades wouldn't last very long! A strange choose of fixing in my opinion.
Tony.

[Frank Kelley]

A good original, but, I suspect the slider is not the first that has been fixed to it's reverse!

Originally Posted by tonyb

Would anyone care to comment on this one?
Looks to be a genuine item IMO.
Help needed to match name with Regiment if possible.
Cheers Tony.

[tonyb]

Hello Frank, you could well be correct, though the replacement slider used on this GviR Household Cavalry badge, is very similar to the one in the original post.
Cheers Tony.

[Frank Kelley]

Hello Tony,
I'm not sure, to be quite honest, but, your badge is a fine original and certainly not something you see every day, in my opinion.
Rank and file LG and RHG badges were produced with blades, I think some of the earlier examples have a more distinctive slider attached than the later ones, which do seem to vary.
Regards Frank

[Luke H]

Finally found a GvR The Life Guards.

[tonyb]

Very nice.
Tony.

[cbuehler]

Originally Posted by tonyb

Alan, I assume the badges being removed from the cap for polishing, blades wouldn't last very long! A strange choose of fixing in my opinion.
Tony.

Indeed! An extremely high polish must have been de rigueur such a regiment. Absurd that blades should ever have been used.
As an aside, I have always been perplexed that the premier cavalry of the realm should have such an unremarkable design of badge. As if they were not even interested in having them from the outset.

[leigh kitchen]

I read somewhere that the Household Cavalry didn't adopt cap badges for the SD cap until King George V noted that they didn't and "offered" to give them badges - an offer they couldn't refuse. Also that LG and RHG were to wear Bronzed badges in the SD cap but that the LG were wearing them polished by 1915.

[Alan O]

This was written by a lot Col in the regiment in the 1950s and clarifies the wearing of cap badges in the Household Calvary and quashes some myths.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4422675...n_tab_contents

As he served in the regiment from 1914 he is one of the best sources for the Household cavalry. Worthy of note are his recollections of what badge the Guards MG battalions wore, the brief existence of 1st&2nd LGs officer's badge and the fact that EVIII badges were never worn.

[leigh kitchen]

Same author:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44228671

[Bill]

A very interesting post, particularly the mention of enamel badges being worn by warrant officers and officers. How many posts are there on the Forum of these being fake badges and never worn?
Bill

[Luke H]

Originally Posted by Bill

A very interesting post, particularly the mention of enamel badges being worn by warrant officers and officers. How many posts are there on the Forum of these being fake badges and never worn?
Bill

The annealed v die badges shown here are indeed fake. This is an inescapable fact they’re from the same die as the Marsh catalogue and are obviously modern manufacture.

Both texts refer to ‘motto of the garter’ or ‘garter motto’ in respect to the fretted gilt and enamel officers and warrant officers badges i.e. Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, as per the below examples which are 100% genuine and never in doubt.

[wardog]

The badge I show at the end of this thread shows a badge from which fake non hanging V badges may have originated. Regards, Paul. https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ht=life+guards