Stratton maker marked badges

[badger123]

Can anyone help with a couple of queries I have about this maker?

Firstly, does anyone know when this company started/finished making badges for the army? (I am aware of Ticker's great thread which confirms they made badges during WW1).

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...light=stratton

Secondly, does anyone know when slidered badges were first maker marked?

Many thanks, Ivan

[Alan O]

Ivan,

It depends on the maker. Gaunt did not generally mark until post WW2 while other firms (Woodwards for example) marked badges in WW1. I have never seen a Stratton badge.

[badger123]

Thanks Alan, useful information and it at least confirms for me that maker marked badges were around in WW1 (albeit Woodwards).

I've seen a couple of Stratton marked badges knocking about (interestingly, the name always seems to be on the inside of the slider) and here's one from my collection.

The presence of this particular pattern of sweat holes says to me WW1.

Ivan

[KLR]

Gaunt did not generally mark sliders until after the 2nd WW - unless they were privately commissioned orders outside WO tenders ! A number of battalions did make private orders.

[mooke07]

Hi all,

Inspired by Ivan Machin's excellent "A Guide to the Badges of the York and Lancaster Regiment 1822 to 1968" my foraging brain was on point when I spotted this one.

A Stratton Birmingham makers marked badge to the inside of the slider as per page 51 of his book and earlier in this thread. Looks a nice aged WW1 badge with one large oval brazing holes and two smaller circular ones to the rear of the rose.

I should have photographed it at an angle but you can see the end of the makers mark in the vertical view.

Cheers and thanks for documenting these Ivan, cheers Dean.

[fougasse1940]

Stratton and Company started in 1912 and was sold in 1965 to the Marconi Company, part of English Electric Group. From the early twenties on the mainly made wireless components.

Rgds, Thomas.