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15-05-10, 08:42 AM
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And this is ...??
I know it's a hat with a bullion badge on a metal backing. Looks to be very modern here?
Have seen similar style in older pictures ,etc. Can someone elaborate for me please ? Cheers ! Steve(NZ) 
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15-05-10, 10:03 AM
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Its called a "Torin" and I would go with the "Highland LI"
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15-05-10, 10:26 AM
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Thanks guys !
Do we know when/if the HLI wore this style of hat ? Not recorded in the WW2 lists ? This particular item has never been, 'worn in anger'. Is like brand new. HLI & RSF merger was in 1959 ?? But seems to be for HLI only here. The badge is very peculiar,to me anyway, being bullion/cloth on a metal backing (shaped as the badge)plate with 2 lugs. Confused, a little ! Steve Last edited by dragonz18; 15-05-10 at 10:34 AM.
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15-05-10, 11:16 AM
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See MHS Special Number 2002 " Coloured Field Service Caps- Infantry" by DG Glover page 53.
Highland Light Infanrty Torin cap- Officers 1st Battalion 1881-95 seems to be exactly as the cap the subject of this thread- Curtain, Body and Crown- all dark green. Seams of curtain and crown piped with cherry tubular braid. Badge composed of "HLI" monogram ensigned by crown " P.B.
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#6
15-05-10, 11:44 AM
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It looks remarkably "new"? You might want to do the old "Burn Test" on the Nylon looking material on the edge of the opening....... find a loose thread on the material....... burn it with a lighter and if it smells like burning plastic and you see the thread form a ball then ....... think modern copy. Obviously Nylon was not around in those days
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Last edited by GriffMJ; 15-05-10 at 11:50 AM.
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17-05-10, 11:32 PM
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The cap could not possibly be original, I am afraid. The construction and appearance original Torin caps that I have seen is different. Aside from that, there is no way it could look as new as that after roughly 120 years!
CB
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18-05-10, 08:08 AM
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