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#1
15-01-22, 10:47 AM
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Conductor badge for review
Hi All
I just picked up this KC conductor's badge. It was cheap so no problem if it is fake but I'd like opinions please. The actual badge looks good to me but it looks like it was made yesterday and the backing also looks new. Any ideas whether it is original or not? Thanks, cheers, Alex 
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#2
15-01-22, 12:50 PM
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Alex,
Looks an original unworn mint example. regards
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Simon Butterworth Manchester Regiment Collector Rank, Prize & Trade Badges British & Commonwealth Artillery Badges
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#4
16-01-22, 07:51 AM
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Agree with Simon. Probably more Conductor badges were manufactured than there ever were Conductors! Changed to QC and anodised patterns in the mid 1950s.
Tim
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"Manui dat cognitio vires - Knowledge gives strength to the arm" "Better to know it but not need it than to need it and not know it!" "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."
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#5
16-01-22, 09:00 AM
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There was a rash of Conductors mint condition metal badges with backing plates on the market: about 20 years ago.
I picked a blackened one, though I've no idea if any unit wore such a badge.
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16-01-22, 10:16 AM
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Hence the phrase new old stock, I guess There was a flurry of the blue plastic economy Royal Marine collars a few years ago. I would imagine someone found a giant unopened box. . . . .they literally looked like they were made yesterday.
Interesting Alex
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