Gordons Highlanders Badge - Anodised

[davidguthrie]

Picked this up at a military show in US. Is it military issue? What time period?

[davidguthrie]

Picture of lugs.

[AndyC_65]

Originally Posted by davidguthrie

Picked this up at a military show in US. Is it military issue? What time period?

Yes it is, any time from mid 50's when AA badges were introduced to 1994 when the regiment was merged with others.

Cheers,

Andy C

[hagwalther]

Originally Posted by davidguthrie

Picked this up at a military show in US. Is it military issue? What time period?

Hi David,

The Gordon Highlanders, CB No. 3325, NSN 8455-99-973-9924, Pattern No. 19530 was first authorised for issue by the Army Dress Committee in 1967. Interestingly this was after the pattern had been sealed on 13th May 1966.

I'm not a fan of the BYDAND spelling with the gap as per your badge and I think these variants were reproduced by J.R.Gaunt and Son in the late 1980's. Your badge also has lugs associated with the Gaunt company. However, I may well be wrong so who knows!

No absolute by any means but the sealed pattern card that I have seen also has the word BYDAND as a single word.

Hope this is of interest.

Regards

Chris

[2747andy]

It is not often that I don't agree 100% with Chris in regards to anodised badges, but since the Gordon Highlanders were still in existence until the mid 1990s badges produced by Gaunt prior to that were probably for military use and not reproduced solely for collectors! The theory about the BYDAND and BY DAND, I suspect is nothing more than a makers variation and there are genuine badges in both Wm and Ano of these variants.

Andy

[hagwalther]

Originally Posted by 2747andy

It is not often that I don't agree 100% with Chris in regards to anodised badges, but since the Gordon Highlanders were still in existence until the mid 1990s badges produced by Gaunt prior to that were probably for military use and not reproduced solely for collectors! The theory about the BYDAND and BY DAND, I suspect is nothing more than a makers variation and there are genuine badges in both Wm and Ano of these variants.

Andy

Fair comment Andy but I can't put my finger on it but something tells me they are not quite right. I must take a harder look at them again soon and see if I can go one way or the other with them.

Regards

Chris

[2747andy]

Chris,
There are certainly G.Hldrs fakes in both Wm, Ano and Gm, however they are normally sporting cartoon like features to the stag rather than the spacing of the lettering on the base scrolls! I cannot see the point of copying later pattern Ano badges? Especially those still current at the time?

Andy

[Mike H]

I have both . Neither are uncommon, just a case of looking hard .
Unlike the Ayrshire yeomanry small and large "of", which is a manufacturing variant.

[davidguthrie]

Thanks for all the comments.

[Mike H]

I think the two word spelling is the slightly harder one to find than the single word.