Gaunt Car Badge with Guards colours

[renamelbages]

Good morning - can anyone please identify this J R Gaunt Car Badge in Guards colours , depicting a Castle Cap Badge (Gibralter ? Inniskilling ?) the badge shield has a Naval Crest.
Happy Easter to all & thankyou
RE

[grenadierguardsman]

Guards blue red blue, is normally horizontal.
Andy

[renamelbages]

Thankyou for your comment Andy.
The direction for the colours on Gaunt Car Badges dont always run in the correct direction.
Being an ex Guardsman you cant tell be which Guards Regiment might have been based at or connected to a Naval Port at sometime in the past ?
Thanks RE

Originally Posted by grenadierguardsman

Guards blue red blue, is normally horizontal.
Andy

[Peter Brydon]

RE,

As you say a naval crown. Most ships badges seem to have a name on them, I wonder if someone has perhaps put the castle from another badge onto this one ?

P.B.

[GriffMJ]

Merchant Navy related? Ship or HQ badge?

[Peter Brydon]

This is Gaunt`s RN car badge:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-OR...IAAOSwo3pWdpA1

P.B.

[renamelbages]

Hi Peter - there are 2 or 3 of these listed in Worthpoint & every listing has stated unknown.
It is in fact the only Gaunt Car Badge I have seen with the Royal Navy Crown at the top of the badge shield.

Thanks RE

Originally Posted by Peter Brydon

RE,

As you say a naval crown. Most ships badges seem to have a name on them, I wonder if someone has perhaps put the castle from another badge onto this one ?

P.B.

[Frank Kelley]

£95!

Originally Posted by Peter Brydon

This is Gaunt`s MN car badge:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-OR...IAAOSwo3pWdpA1

P.B.

[Hoot]

Union Castle Line perhaps?.

[Peter Brydon]

Hoot,

That was a thought I had but an internet search found nothing similar for the Castle or Union Castle Lines.

Peter

[Cribyn]

Anything to do with the wartime Castle Class Corvettes?

[grenadierguardsman]

Ive not seen the vertical blue red blue one's. No idea why they are like that, flags and stable belts,flash's and beret flash's are always horizontal. ?????
Andy

[Warstone]

It's a naval coronet at the top, representing sea in the civilian series Style 'B' badges. The others are land (wheels), air (astral) and civil (mural). There only seems to have been one mural design made; never seen an astral one but there are more than this design having the sea coronet.

[Rob Miller]

Could it be something to do with HMS Conway?

Rob

http://www.hmsconway.org/misc.html#Crests

[peter monahan]

You may be onto something, Cribyn! The thrid turret 'behind' the wall may be important in separartying it from all the other 'castle' ships and regiments.