Strange Gloucestershire badge

[Tinto]

Hi All,
Here is an odd Gloucestershire Regiment badge, obviously the usual white-metal type, but has been coated brown and the slider has been bent twice. Badge has the appearance of having been worn, has a bit of wear on the front, and has a fair bit of grit/sand in the crevices.
I'd be interested in Forum members opinions.
Cheers, Tinto

[2747andy]

Looks like it has been in the ground, the colour is typical!

Andy

[CftD]

I hate to be rather obvious but I rather suspect that your badge is a basic Gloucesters - with the conventional slider BENT BACK ! Straighten it and I believe you will have a normal Gloucestershire Regiment cap badge. David

[LONGSHANKS]

Good catch CFTD. I didn't see that at first, but I think your right. Andy 2447 pointed out to me that this was common way of keeping it on the cap and not just on Trophy Belts.. With being potentially buried, it confirms the cap attachment method to me.

Simon.

[Tinto]

Thanks for your comments chaps. The browning has definitely been applied, not due to natural weathering in the ground. I wondered if the badge may been treated like this to resemble the bronze officer type badge.
Tinto

[LONGSHANKS]

I wonder if it was done to dull it down in combat conditions. I have one from 1914-18 that had this done to it.

Simon.

[Fatherofthree]

Originally Posted by LONGSHANKS

Good catch CFTD. I didn't see that at first, but I think your right. Andy 2447 pointed out to me that this was common way of keeping it on the cap and not just on Trophy Belts.. With being potentially buried, it confirms the cap attachment method to me.

Simon.

Hi Simon.

If it was in the ground, then the bent slider method wasn't too successful in keeping it in place.......unless it got into the ground in a more unfortunate way.

Regards
Brian

[LONGSHANKS]

Maybe so. There again, it may not a dug one and was attached to atrophy belt. I have a few in my collection with this type of bending.

Simon.

[magpie]

Its typical of a metal detector find , Andy was right it has been in the ground.
Andy.

[Keith Blakeman]

Originally Posted by magpie

Its typical of a metal detector find , Andy was right it has been in the ground.
Andy.

The pitting to the shank is always a feature of excavated badges.

[Tinto]

Thanks Everybody, for your comments. Andy (magpie) has persuaded me the badge has been in the ground. I actually sent an image to the Curator of the Gloucestershire Regiment Museum and he replied:

"Thank you for your email. This looks very much like a standard Gloucestershire Regiment badge used in the 1930s. During this period badges were sometime blackened."

That opens up another line of thought!
Cheers, Tinto

[LONGSHANKS]

I mentioned that possibility in post #6 above.

Simon.