The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) Cap Badge - Birmingham Mint Issue

In good condition, a Birmingham Mint collectors' issue. Oddly they chose to issue this in a white metal finish (not the armoured regiment version!). 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 (not often the case although regiments such as the RNF issued an officer's cap badge with a slider). 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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