Army Service Corps (Very Small)

[billy]

Hi how many Army Service Corps badges have we all seen, loads I would guess and you are probably thinking of all the different variations popping up in your head as you read this! and quite honestly I have a few but I suspect not all!

I have seen collar badges and may actually have one or two knocking about but don’t actively seek them out, so if you think of a collar badge with a Slider because this badge is Small! and may be of a collar badge size?

So the badge appears to be Bronze? Patina is nice, the measurements are :-

Width 1” 1/16”
Height 1” 7/16”

Have put a £1 coin to show a comparison, slider hasn’t been added to it as an afterthought but original to badge, as mentioned looks to be Bronze but may be patina?

Anyone seen one of these before? because I haven’t and may have paid over the odds I think, for an “ASC” cap badge, £18, but I couldn’t walk away from it as never come across a slidered small badge like this?

Any information on it would be appreciated, and an idea of value (just to see if was over or under what I paid! )

Many thanks Billy

[Luke H]

It’s a standard badge which someone has gone to a great deal of trouble cutting the star off by the looks. So it’s about 60% of a badge.

Why it was done is anyone’s guess.

[billy]

Luke absolutely right as I now look at it I can see it! Why indeed? it did look nice but couldn’t see what you obviously did, thanks mate, “want a badge? £20 and that’s cutting me own throat at that price”.

Solved, all the best billy

[Luke H]

Well a ‘normal’ ASC costs a fiver or so, I doubt you’d find many people who’d be able or willing to cut it aways as neatly and skilfully as it is for a tenner, so in that respect it’s not a bad deal and main thing is as long as you’re happy.

And I bet you’ll never find another like it. Clearly it was altered a very long time ago, a nice oddity / curio.

[cbuehler]

I can't imagine why such pains were taken for this particular badge. Was some WW1 soldier bored? We will never know.

CB

[billy]

Hi lads! badge has a lovely Patina! and has been altered a very long time ago, Luke, as you say a Curio!

C.B. totally agree with you on that, perhaps it was altered as a button-hole post war? like an Old Comrades badge?

All the best Billy

[Phil2M]

I had one the same a few years ago.

[sapper533]

McHenry and Kellock show Indian GRI cap badges without the star, worn by civilians in the IASC
Regards
Sean