Badges Part IV

[Allan P.]

Here's some more infantry regiments?

Allan

[leigh kitchen]

Typical ,just as I check the box before being forced to finmish my beer 7 go to bed, brief details:
Loyal North Lancs, Hampshires, royal hampshires, West Yorks, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire, Duke of edinburgh's (Wiltshire), Northumberland Fusiliers (pre 1935 "Royal"), South Lancs POW Volunteers, R Innis - flag flying left - contact Jim McLean by private message if you want to sell, Cambridgeshire Regt (TA) - can't read the name scrolls, are they different spellins - there was a WWII mistake in the spelling, missed out the first "E", Honourable Artillery Company.
I'll post proper details when I'm allowed to.......

[leigh kitchen]

Loyal Regt (North Lancashire),with the King's Crown which replaced Queen Victoria's after her death it's successor was sealed 16/10/35 (the name scroll changing to "The Loyal Regiment").

The Hampshire Regt, followed by the next badge which is the pattern sealed 26/1/49 to reflect the name change of 1946 to "Royal".

West Yorshire Regt, sealed 22/8/1898.

Bedfordshire Regt, name change to Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire in 1918, it's Beds & Herts successor was sealed in 1924.

The Wiltshire Regt (Duke of Edinburgh's), it's successor with change to central cypher was sealed 5/6/56.

Northumberland Fusiliers, the regiment became "Royal" in 1935 & a new badge was sealed 3/5/37.

The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire), its anodised successor was sealed 17/10/63.

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, sealed 30/6/21, a different badge of castle by itself came in about 1926 - 34, the grenade badge was resumed after that but with flag flying to viewers right, a variation having a misspelling.

Cambridgeshire Regiment, the Regiment was formed 1908, as one of the four "stand alone" TF regiments as opposed to TF battalions of regular infantry regiments, there is a WWII striking with misspelled name scroll. In effect they were a TA bn of the Suffolk Regt.Amalgamated in 1961 with 4th Bn Suffolk Regt.

Ditto.

Honourable Artillery Company, ranks below sergeant from 1902. The white metal version of this may have replaced it by about 1922.

Again, dtaes sealed won't necessarily reflect the dates worn - eg the R. Innis Fus was sealed in 1921, but would have been in wear for twenty odd years by then.

Nothing wonderfully scarce, they's go for about £3 - £6 other than the Cambridgeshires & HAC which would be about £10 perhaps & the R. Innis. Fus which would be more like £20 or so.

Dealer's will range from about half those prices to about double.

[Jim Maclean]

As Leigh says I have an empty slot for that Inniskilling Fusiliers badge if you ever think about unloading it.

Quite a nice collection you amassed for yourself.

[fknorr]

There is a dealer always at the Allentown, Pa show that has a bunch of these. I am assuming good but I do not know these....

[leigh kitchen]

Got to be very careful with these things, there can't be a Brit badge that isn't faked, often using original dies & there are a multitude of ways of artificially aging them. even the most common are faked.

Then again anybody who collects 3R stuff is familiar with that problem.

[fknorr]

Got to be very careful with these things, there can't be a Brit badge that isn't faked, often using original dies & there are a multitude of ways of artificially aging them. even the most common are faked.

Then again anybody who collects 3R stuff is familiar with that problem.

Who would want to fake this junk....it isn't even pretty?

[Jim Maclean]

At least a**holes aren't faked yet

[max7474]

A good WW1 Inniskilling badge. The copies lack the brazing holes in the reverse I presume this one has but also the flag on the originals are only connected to the castle by the thin flag pole where as the copies the bottom left corner of the flag is attached to the tower as it is not 'cut out' as well as the originals. Difficult to explain but look at some on ebay and see what I mean. After 1934 the flag flew to the right. As far as money goes it is worth at least £20 and I have sen dealers aking £30-40 for the LH flag version.

[Allan P.]

Thanks very much for the information.

More badges to follow,

Allan