The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) Birmingham Mint Commemorative Cap Badge

In good overall condition but no longer 'mint' Birmingham Mint collectors' issue. These were well made collectables. A collectors edition issued with a silver medallion for each regiment.

They are often misidentified and described and sold as 'Officer badges - with sliders'. This one in particular is often mistaken as such as scarce QEII issue. Please note that a small number of regiments, such as the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, did where officer badges with a small slider fitted to the reverse (See my item 64269 for a good example of one).

The Birmingham Mint purchased J R Gaunt in 1973, and shortly afterwards they manufactured and marketed a set of 52 Line Infantry Regiment cap badges with commemorative medallions. The badges and medallions were described as a “Tribute to the 52 Time Honoured Regiments of the Line that have passed into legend” and were sold in a ‘Limited Edition’ of 3000 sets in monthly instalments to collectors. The set was complemented by a military style wooden chest with two fitted drawers. In 1977 an additional set of 11 badges and 12 medallions representing the Household Division was produced in a small frame (credit for information BMBF). See

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Code: 65550