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01-04-22, 07:34 PM
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Hi Bess, If you've still got this badge, how does the thought of selling it to me,
grab you? Otherwise I could trade you something for it, how about two Cambs badges with oval braze holes, two for one, ain't bad? 
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02-04-22, 01:59 PM
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“Firmin London” marked badges?
Hi Bess
I hope you don’t mind me posting this up, and I wouldn’t want you to think I was trying to commandeer your thread, but I also have a badge with what looks like this same Firmin mark. Mine is a bi-metal Leicesters, which you can see in this composite picture of it showing both its front and back: Firm marked.jpg I’m happy that this is a Firmin & Sons’ badge, and so that the maker’s mark is authentic, but I’m still not clear on why this badge, and your Cambridgeshire one for that matter, would be marked if they are genuine period badges? Irrespective of modern repros, like the ones made by Gladman & Norman, I’m becoming increasingly wary of maker marked badges after learning about those apparently produced by J. R. Gaunt & Son from the 1970s to the 1990s. So if badges like ours, with authentic “Firmin London” marks on them, are indeed proper period badges actually worn by the regiments in question, how is that they are marked? Given my understanding was that other ranks’ badges only really began to bear markers’ marks with the advent of anodised aluminium/staybright – or have I got that completely wrong?? Regards Martin
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