victorian collar thingy!! what unit though??

[paddywhack]

picked up this collar insaignia a while bck and i was told it was ground dug but i just dont know! anyway can anyone tell me what unit it from and maybe what year??thanks!!
front

[paddywhack]

and of course the back!thanks for any info!!!

[Jack Dutton-Roberts]

If I remember correctly this is the collar badge for the Lincolnshire Regiment.

I'm sure Jim or Leigh will know more about this than I do.

[paddywhack]

cool thanks for that! oh and the brass thing on the back that goes into the lugs is abit i got off a friend!
but thanks again!

[Jim Maclean]

Probably the commonest collar badge in the army, the sphinx above Egypt was worn by quite a few regiments. Unfortunately yours is lacking part of the tail which is very useful in identifying the regiment. To me it most closely resembles the Goucestershire regiment.

[paddywhack]

ha ha that would be right! anyway no bother thanks for that!

[leigh kitchen]

There was a whole range of different sphinx's, male, female, different tails, different metals even within the same regiment, I'd need to work on this one.

[leigh kitchen]

The headress does'nt go down over the chest, as it does on the Lincs. sphinx.
With its short headress, turned up tail & impressive chest it resembles those worn on the cap badges of the South Wales Borderers, The Gloucestershire Regt, The Black Watch, The Lancs Fusiliers, The East Lancs & The RGBW Regt.

I know naff all about collar dogs, I'd say Glosters, Black Watch, East Lancs or Lancs Fus, depending on who wore a sphinx collar dog & whether it had the EGYPT tablet underneath.
So I'd guess Glosters or Black Watch.
I don't know what I'm talking about, so my shot in the dark would be Glosters on this one.

[paddywhack]

oops forgot to looks this thread up again! thanks for the help! any info is always great!