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Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Medal/badge ID help
« Reply #15 on: 02 March 2014, 07:11:44 PM »
The swords and lions on the enamel make me wonder about something from the Levant. Arab Legion perhaps?
What crown shape would Jordan etc use?
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Offline joroas

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Re: Medal/badge ID help
« Reply #16 on: 02 March 2014, 07:40:48 PM »
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The central blue symbols looks very like the UK Boy Scouts symbol

Its a fleur de lis, the emblem of pre-Napoleonic France, hence the French link, but....

I still assert that this is a cut and shunt emblem and will not be identified as anything else.

The real badge is one like this, but the detail is obscured:

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Offline dadlamassu

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Re: Medal/badge ID help
« Reply #17 on: 02 March 2014, 08:58:32 PM »
It may be a Scout type insignia based perhaps on the "Scout VC" top left in image.  Though if it was a Scout badge I would have expected to "Be Prepared" on it too.



There is a similar Scouting Cross - symbol of the Polish Scout Movement



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Re: Medal/badge ID help
« Reply #18 on: 02 March 2014, 11:22:11 PM »
The Fleur de Lys is generally French, but has been used in many place for many things, even at times on things British.


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Offline Connectamabob

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Re: Medal/badge ID help
« Reply #19 on: 03 March 2014, 02:08:47 AM »
The US boy scouts uses the Fluer de Lis too. Though IIRC they frame it in a diamond rather than a circle or a cross.

The fact that the hole at the top of the badge appears to be off center is bugging me. In fact,  now that I look closer, the enamel button is off center too (look at the "V"s of the cross on either side of the button).
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