SAS Brass Slider

[seanhath]

Hello,
I picked up this SAS Brass / Bronzed badge today.
I'm hoping it is correct and genuine.
As always - I'm grateful for your learned opinions.







Kind regards,
Sean

[Alan O]

Sorry but it's not right. Whilst in the past the TA did wear metal badge on sliders, these were bimetal.

I remember you could buy these badges for £5 in a shop in Salisbury in the 1990s. They were made for collectors in my opinion.

[seanhath]

Originally Posted by Alan O

Sorry but it's not right. Whilst in the past the TA did wear metal badge on sliders, these were bimetal.

I remember you could buy these badges for £5 in a shop in Salisbury in the 1990s. They were made for collectors in my opinion.

That's a shame - but luckily I'm not out of pocket.
Thank you for your help.
Sean

[leigh kitchen]

It looks to be the same or very similar to a badge my father bought me during a visit to Gaunt or Firmin's shop in London when I was a kid, around the 1969/70.

[Luke H]

I entirely agree with Alan.

[pontecagnano]

I have a couple of these and believe them to be older good quality re-strikes. They were made in bronzed or natural brass finish and there is a KC Para beret badge out of the same stable. The whole badge is hard brass and nicely struck with good symmetry, clear motto and slider on straight. (Unlike many re-strikes on eBay) Alan is correct, the early 1950s badges were bi-metal and produced with lugs or slider about the time of the Coronation. They were intended for 22 as 21, at that time, was wearing the M&M badge.

I've attached an image of the lugged and slidered bi-metal versions. The lugs are short and copper unlike the later gilt and silver lugged officers' badge. I have also included an all brass badge. I have always regarded the all brass badges as re-strikes but this one, intriguingly, appears to have come out of the same die as the other two. Check out the motto detail.

Graham

[leigh kitchen]

The badge I referred to in post no. 4, originally bronzed.
The same as those mentioned as being available in the 1990's?

A previous thread mentioning brass SAS badges:

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...hlight=Bronzed