Major Taylor who is still in possession of his "berryanackle" with silver bullion badge has informed me that he aquired it at Knook Camp, Warminster when they was demonstration battalion at the School of Infantry in the early fifties.
He states all the officers wore them and they came from old stock brought from India (as the battalion spent the whole of WW2 in the Far East I should imagine they was manufactured there)
Coincidentally; The officers lace of the old 20th of foot was, at one time, silver (so there's nothing new under the sun)
Bill (fusilbrush)