WW2 Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) Bronze GVI Cap Badge with tabs / blades

A bronze die struck cap badge with two original tabs / blades to the reverse. Dramatically shaped to cap, some minor service wear to finish but a good original colour. King's Crown. Sealed 1937 and worn until 1953.

K&K Vol 2 No 1877 refers.

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Code: 66607

WW1 Connaught Rangers Other Rank's Gilding Metal Cap Badge

Die struck gilding metal cap badge with original slider to the reverse. In very good condition.

K&K Vol 1, No 696 refers.

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Code: 66930

Westminster Dragoons Imperial Yeomanry Gilt Brass Cap Badge

A die struck cap badge in gilt brass metal with two original loops to the reverse. The fretting and voiding on this delicate badge is quite wonderful. Scroll reads "Westminster Dragoons I.Y" Pre 1908.

See the following URL for a discussion on this badge:

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Code: 66124

Canadian Militia - 50th Gordon Highlanders Sporran Badge

A small die struck bronze sporran badge at circa 35mm tall. Two loops but one of these is a contemporary replacement. Most probably an officer's issue given the OSD finish. I believe other ranks wore this in white metal. Scarce.

The 50th Gordon Highlanders were a pre-1914 militia unit formed in Victoria British Columbia (Sir Arthur Currie helped raise the regiment in 1913).<...  read more

Code: 68579

WW1 Canada - 130th Infantry Battalion (Lanark & Renfrew) CEF Canadian Expeditionary Force Overseas Infantry Battalion Cap Badge

Pickled Brass die struck example with two original loops to the reverse. In very good condition.

Cox No 130 refers.

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Code: 68520

WW1 Canada - 225th (Kootenay) Battalion CEF Collar Badge

Die struck dark copper maple leaf on the tip of which embossed on an upward arc C.E.F, below this the figure 225, the figures between the tips of the antlers of a stag's head and neck, face on, over the centre of the leaf, looping from tip to tip of the central lobes of the leaf and going behind the stag's head, a scroll bearing left and right respectively KOOTENAY / BATTALION, below the stag's...  read more

Code: 68590

WW1 Canada - 8th Canadian Mounted Rifles Bronze Cap Badge

A die struck bronze example with two original loops. IN very good condition. Raised in 1915 in the province of Ontario and provided drafts to the Western Front.

Cox No 319 refers.

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Code: 68801

WW1 Canada - 1st Depot Battalion (Nova Scotia) Regiment Gilding Metal Brass Cap Badge

A gilding metal die struck example with two original loops to the reverse. Circa 48mm tall it is cap badge size but smaller than the example shown in Cox. Could be a collar badge, happy to be corrected.

Cox No 802 refers (but smaller).

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Code: 68800

WW1 Canada - 6th Canadian Mounted Rifles (CMR) Pickled Brass Cap Badge - Larger Pattern

In good condition with two original loops to the reverse. Circa 45mm tall. Minor service wear to the tip of the maple leaf and the numeral 6. worn in two sizes, this is the larger pattern. Raised in the Province of Nova Scotia and perpetuated by the 8th Canadian Hussars. Served on the Western Front.

Cox 316 refers.

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Code: 68802

WW1 Canada - 9th Lloydminster Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan) Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) Cap Badge

Blackened brass cap badge with two original loops to the reverse, these are squashed but still functional and otherwise in very good condition.

Cox No 320 refers.

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Code: 66876