keith119 Posted 15 May , 2008 Share Posted 15 May , 2008 Odd Newfoundland Regiment Badge. Have a look. http://cgi.ebay.ca/Rare-Orig-WW1-Collar-Ba...1QQcmdZViewItem Is just me or is the badge facing the wrong direction? Every other badge I have seen faces to the left. Is this a fake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 15 May , 2008 Share Posted 15 May , 2008 Tis a collar badge Keith and would have been worn on the right collar facing the opening of the tunic. Many collar badges are right and left facing, cheers, Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith119 Posted 15 May , 2008 Author Share Posted 15 May , 2008 Tis a collar badge Keith and would have been worn on the right collar facing the opening of the tunic. Many collar badges are right and left facing, cheers, Jon Oh. That clears that up. Do you know if there is any difference in the cap badge and collar badge facing to the left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 15 May , 2008 Share Posted 15 May , 2008 Collar badges are always worn in pairs and in many cases were smaller versions of the cap badge, so pairs such as the Newfoundlanders collar badges would be one right and one left facing. As far as I'm aware the Newfoundlanders always wore the Caribou facing to the left (if yer looking at it) on the cap badge. Hope it helps, cheers, Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Martin Posted 15 May , 2008 Share Posted 15 May , 2008 I haven't seen to many Collar Dogs for the NFLD Rgt. in person, but despite what the seller has written, this one has some major damage. The Caribou is missing the back section of its rack, which should extend almost straight out behind the ear ending halfway over the scroll. The cap and collar badges for the NFLD Rgt., from what I can tell, were roughly the same size. The collar badge for the regiment during the Great War was worn, for the most part with both caribou facing left. All the photos I have looked at of the regiment in 1914-1915 and some for later years show the badges, when worn, both facing left. There may have been a change during the war to the badge, as the shoulder titles changed from "1stNFLD" to just "NFLD" once 2nd Battalion was established, but I'm not aware of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted 17 May , 2008 Share Posted 17 May , 2008 I am inclined to agree with Chris. Here is an excellent site which backs up the fact that the collars and cap badge are both the same size: http://www.heritage.nf.ca/greatwar/gallery...ts/default.html See Digger History for a pair of collars to the Royals. http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-badges/canada04.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 17 May , 2008 Share Posted 17 May , 2008 I like the "Just about all these guys were killed in WW1" line. No hyperbole there, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Martin Posted 17 May , 2008 Share Posted 17 May , 2008 See Digger History for a pair of collars to the Royals. http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-badges/canada04.htm The Cap and Collar badge set shown on Digger History are post Second World War. The Rgt. was stood down in 1919 and not reformed as an infantry regiment until the late 1940's when it was reformed as a militia unit and allowed to keep their battle honours and royal title from the Great War. These badges come from that reformation as during the Second World War the 166th and 59th both wore badges of the royal artillery, the primary distinction as being from Newfoundland was the khaki cloth shoulder title with Newfoundland embroidered in red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted 17 May , 2008 Share Posted 17 May , 2008 I used to correspond with newfoundland collector and he tells me that these badges are overvalued particulary by the people placing bids on eBay. Sadly there is no definitive book on badges to the Newfoundland units. The 1949 collars are usually solid backed so I have been told by this gentleman and are often sold as circa WW1. The badge for sale here may be an officers collar its the only plausable explanation I give as to why it is facing in the wrong direction although the quality does not suggest this, a possible rare late war collar that could possibly explain the price? Ive always had a soft spot for this British regiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Martin Posted 17 May , 2008 Share Posted 17 May , 2008 It could be a rare late war officers badge, as I say I have seen very few NFLD collar badges, but photos of officers up to at least late 1915 early 1916 show officers wearing the caribou both pointing left. I agree that the quality may preclude it from being an officers as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted 18 May , 2008 Share Posted 18 May , 2008 Chris, I am also not dismissing the possibility this is a sweet hearts brooch. There were similar die struck badge sweet hearts made for other British units that can often be mistaken for collar badges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilJames Posted 9 August , 2008 Share Posted 9 August , 2008 My Grandfather was in The Newfoundland Regiment, picked this badge up off of ebay last week. Thankfully it did'nt command the price of the original poster's ebay link. I did read these were made up until 1950, is there anyway to determine the age of this example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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