Various British insignia- WWII?

[Jerry B]

Firmin was another big maker of cap badges. The staybrights might be interesting, as I saw an SAS example once and you know it is not a fake, maybe I should have bought it.

The badge collection for $15 is cheap, even if restrikes as they still go for about $5 each. You need better pics of each badge to tell and even then from pics it's hard to tell.

Regards,

Jerry

[MadJack]

Infantry Regiments.


Grenadier Guards,
Coldstream Guards,
Scots Guards,
Irish Guards,
Welsh Guards,
Royal Regiment of Scotland
Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Royal Anglian Regiment
Yorkshire Regiment
Mercian Regiment
Royal Welsh
Royal Irish Regiment
Parachute Regiment
Royal Gurkha Rifles
Rifles
London Regiment

[MadJack]

Corps


Royal Armoured Corps
Army Air Corps
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Royal Corps of Signals
Corps of Royal Engineers
Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers
Royal Logistic Corps
Intelligence Corps
Royal Army Chaplains' Department
Adjutant General's Corps
Army Medical Services
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Royal Army Dental Corps
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
United Kingdom Special Forces (Reserve)
Corps of Army Music
Royal Army Physical Training Corps
Small Arms School Corps
Brigade of Gurkhas
Media Operations Group (Volunteers)

[crossofiron]

did you say the badges/medals were £15? to be honest at that price i would be prepared to take the rough with the smooth!!

all medals have a "catalogue" price so are fairly easy to look up and price. as has been said before^^^badges do have a certain smell, unless recently brasso'd. but of course ebay doesnt have a "smell"

[medals1966]

hi guys i used to have a collection of over 200 british cap badges nearly half of them i found out were restrikes collecting of british cap badges is a minefield in the 1970s gaunt produced many pre 1950s cap badges for the collectors market from the origional dies all these badges are marked gaunt b/ham and all are restrikes one other way to tell if a badge is a restrike is if it bends under finger pressure but this is not 100% gospel as metals can change their compisition due to conditions or age also a name on the slider does not mean the badge is genuine as a lot of pre 1950s badges were not maker marked fakers do put maker marks on badge sliders many british cap badges are very valuble also pre 1930s bi metal cap badges had sweat holes in the rear this was to allow hot gasses to be released when the white metal was braised to the brass after the 1930s manufactures developed a new process that did away with need for sweat holes fakers drill holes in the fakes to simulate this process hope some of this helps most of this info i got from the great guys in a badge forum i joined kind regards duncan