Lancashire Fusiliers badge

[Tony]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if this badge is good or bad from the scan alone?

I don?t have it with me but have been told it isn?t easily bent. Does it date from WWI?

Thanks

Tony

[Tony]

The reverse

[harribobs]

doesn't look too good to me, a poorly stamped copy IMHO

[Tony]

doesn't look too good to me, a poorly stamped copy IMHO

Thanks, I've still not had it in my hands but it came with a group of medals I bought a while back. I'll be collecting them when I get back home in March.

Tony

[leigh kitchen]

Looks okay to me.........

[Tony]

Looks okay to me.........

Cheers Leigh.

I now have the badge with me and it feels nice and heavy in the hand. It came with this little lot http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6886...hl=albert+evans and a few weeks back I managed to buy his plaque so have my first reunite. I'm going back home for the weekend next week and will pick it up.

Tony

[Jim Maclean]

Looks OK, I like what appears to be a slight taper to the slider.

[leigh kitchen]

Some people dismiss all tapered sliders out of hand as fakes, some years ago a faker used tapered sliders, but not all badges with them are fake. And I think it was "FM BHAM" who producrd genuine badges with manufacturer marked tapered sliders.

[spionKopKid]

Hi chaps. just wondering why "fakes" would exhist for this medal, are the originals worth a considerable amount, I thought they were only 5 to 10 only?

Just asking as i have one of these I'm looking to sell.

[spionKopKid]

replace "medal" with "badge" above, got a bit carried away with my first post!!

[leigh kitchen]

Even the most common badges are faked nowadays, the existence of original old dies no doubt helps make current production of common badges economical for the replica / fake manufacturer. It's a bit of a surprise to think that cap / beret badges to the LF ceased to be worn for coming up 50 years ago.