Artillery bullion badge

[high wood]

I bought this rather tatty artillery sleeve badge at Church Stoke last Sunday. I presume that it is a gunner's appointment badge of some kind, probably worn above a set of serjeant's stripes. Can anyone please tell me exactly what it signifies and when it would have been worn, i.e. is it Great War vintage?

Thank you.

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[wainfleet]

It was an RA distinction to wear the gun above sergeant's stripes. Not a particular distinction, just part of that corps' rank badging.

This version in blue cloth would probably have been worn on full dress or undress. A brass version was worn on service dress. However, there is a Boer War period khaki drill uniform in the Artillery Museum with just such a gun over a set of stripes, so yours could be Victorian.

Edit: I see there is a related discussion in the Miscellaneous subforum, entitled Sergeants Stripes.