Double Blades & Maker Mark

[tonyb]

Here's an example having a combination of double and single blades. Not makers marked I'm afraid.
Tony.
https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...1&d=1491043175

[Jelly Terror]

Originally Posted by Rob Miller

I think this may be an arm badges, this sort of fitting may be more secure and comfortable on the sleeve?

And this fitting also seems quite common on Chinese Labour Corps cap badges.

Rob

N/S tangs as illustrated in the Gaunt catalogue image. Thanks Rob.

Originally Posted by tonyb

Here's an example having a combination of double and single blades. Not makers marked I'm afraid.
Tony.
https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...1&d=1491043175

Intersting combination. Thanks Tony.

[Luke H]

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

Does that badge actually have four blades? It looks like two blades on one side and one on the other rather than two pairs of two.
Presumably a mistake rather than a deliberate belt and braces job.
Are you thinking along the lines of "double" blades being deliberately fitted so that pairs would be splayed outwards?.

Leigh, they’re found on early badges. I’ve seen them on a few WM badges for volunteer units. As you say they’re designed to be splayed out so would not have been suited to being removed for regular cleaning, hence why so many are seen with a blade or two broken I suspect and possibly why the practice was short lived.

[magpie]

I've also replaced them on a couple of Canadian badges.

[Luke H]

JT, I can’t say I’ve ever seen one MM’ed. A couple I’ve seen were I believe from Gaunt dies (RA vols springs to mind), being OR badges I believe, I suspect a tablet would be the most probable.