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Author Topic: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!  (Read 987 times)

Offline Harry Faversham

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Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
« on: March 17, 2019, 02:50:44 PM »
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on mi' 'ead son!
Buglehorn badge on the stovepipe shako...
brass or silver metal?

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Offline Baron von Wreckedoften

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Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2019, 06:47:32 PM »
Assuming you are talking about the Napoleonic period, then both the 43rd and 52nd had silver officers' lace, so "white metal" shako badges.
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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2019, 08:22:21 PM »
That's what I thought initially, but I've seen 28mm 52nd Light Infantry figures, with brass buglehorn badges... so now I'm more confused that ever!

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Offline Baron von Wreckedoften

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Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2019, 11:28:28 PM »
Are they from a later period, perhaps?

Offline Jemima Fawr

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Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2019, 07:17:04 AM »
As I understand it, shako badges, breast-plates, etc, were generally brass, regardless of officers' metal-colour.  However, some officers could have silvered items.  Nothing is ever straightforward in the British Army...

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Re: Up the Ox and Bucks!!!
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2019, 07:21:28 AM »
On a similar vein, ORs' buttons were always pewter and officers' shako-cords on 1812 Pattern shakos also tended to be gold, even when the metal colour was silver.