Collecting Anodised Cap Badges
By Peter Taylor
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Collecting Anodised Cap Badges - Peter Taylor
COLLECTING
ANODISED CAP BADGES
This book is dedicated to three dear friends
Lulu, Ben and Freya
COLLECTING
ANODISED CAP BADGES
Peter Taylor
LEO COOPER
First published in 1998 by
LEO COOPER
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Limited
47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2AS
Copyright © Peter Taylor, 1998
ISBN 0 85052 637 X
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Contents
1 CAVALRY
2 YEOMANRY
3 INFANTRY
4 LONDON REGIMENTS
5 GUARDS
6 DEPARTMENT & CORPS
7 AIRBORNE FORCES
8 ROYAL MARINES
9 SCHOOLS & MISCELLANEOUS
10 BRIGADE OF GURKHAS
11 TERRITORIAL REGIMENTS
12 O.T.C. (SENIOR & JUNIOR DIVISION)
13 INDEX
Foreword
When I first started collecting military badges and buttons, back in the 1940’s there were few books dealing specifically with the subject, indeed only a couple of very slim paperbacks published in the early years of the war, and scattered reference to badges or buttons in various other books.
With the result that I, like other collectors of the period, built up our own records and exchanged information on our researches with each other. If today’s collectors can imagine their hobby without Kipling-King, Gaylor, Parkyn, Westlake, Ripley, Cox, Wilkinson, Westlake & Churchill and the many editions of Edwards, as well as magazines which cover the subject in one form or another, they may begin to understand why I for one always welcome any book which helps plug some of the gaps which still exist in our knowledge of the subject.
When anodised badges and buttons first appeared a few years after World War II ended, I think it is true to say, they were not very popular with the majority of collectors. Most of us felt that we already had plenty to go at without adding a new category to the field. At this time of course, it was quite common to collect the Empire as a whole, and apart from the new designs which appeared amongst the anodised issues, other items tended to be ignored. This was unfortunate, as many of the early issues are now very difficult to find, and reliable information is hard to come by.
In recent years, many collectors have turned to collecting just anodised items. There are, I think two reasons for this.
Firstly they regard it as a nice compact field, which offers the chance of completeness, no matter how remote, which is rather more than can be said of practically any other field of military badge or button collecting, no matter how limited a field one collects in. Secondly is the realisation that there is an ever growing number of reproductions and fakes appearing on the market, and collectors in general are under the impression that the anodised field of collecting has escaped the attentions of the individuals who pedal this type of rubbish.
Unfortunately this is not quite true, as reproduction anodised badges have appeared in recent years, but hopefully this book will provide some guidance to collectors and possibly help them to avoid the disappointment which always follows when one realises too late that last acquisition is of doubtful origin.
Walter Lambert
1998
Introduction
This book is devoted to the collecting of anodised cap badges. Anodised badges first appeared in 1948 with the introduction of new battle and service dress. The Army clothing department asked the badge manufacturers to come up with a metal that did not need polishing and would stay bright and clean. It was intended to make it easier for the enlisted men to keep their badges and buttons luminous and in good condition.
The first badge to be produced in the new anodised aluminium and to be shown to the clothing department was that of the 6th Dragoon Guards. This badge appears with a slider, lugs and a single lug in the middle so it can be fitted on a waist belt clasp. The badge is quite crudely made and is rare as only 7 are known to exist.
The Army started trials of the new badge in 1948; the first unit to receive the new cap