Help identifying a badge, please

[SmallTownGirl]

Hi

When I cleared my late mother's house, I found this.  Can anyone tell me what it is, please?

Thanks
STG

Ps: The bar across the top is about 3/4 of an inch wide and the back of it has a broach fixing.

[John915]

Good evening,

The size would indicate that it is a sweetheart brooch. Based on either a royal navy or merchant navy officers beret badge. Oddly it would appear to be suspended from the ribbon for the Canada general service medal 1866. Despite it's date it wasn't issued until 1899.

Sweetheart badges are usually synonymous with WW1.

John915

[jess5athome]

Hi, I think it's a Royal Navy sweetheart brooch 

Regards
Frank.

[SmallTownGirl]

Thanks for the replies, chaps, but you've set me puzzling now as to how it came into my parents' possession!

I've recently discovered that my grandfather (a Sgt in the Labour Corps) accompanied Chinese Labour Corps members back to China in 1918; he returned to the UK in 1919.  I gather that they were usually transported by sea to the east coast of Canada, then by train across Canada, and by ship from the Canadian west coast to China itself.

Bit of a long shot, but perhaps he picked it up on his travels then?

Or were there Canadian troops fighting in the Boer War, 'cos he was there too. 

The medal was in a drawer with this RAF badge (1.75" high x 1.5" wide).  My father was in the RAF during WWII, so I supposed it (and the little medal) to both have been WWII.

STG

[SmallTownGirl]

This is the back of the RAF badge.  No pinning mechanism, so I assume it was sewn on, as a cap badge, probably?

STG

[jess5athome]

Hi STG, Yes, that's a second world war era RAF cap badge, the two "eyelets" on the back would have passed through two holes in the cap and the badge would have been kept in place by passing a "Cotter pin" through them on the inside of the cap and then opening the pin slightly.

Frank.

[Flattybasher9]

The first one is listed on the web as a "James Fenton Silver Enamel Sweetheart Brooch".

Regards

Malky

[SmallTownGirl]

 > James Fenton silver enamel sweetheart broach

That looks exactly the same as the one I've got, except that mine's not silver.  It has no markings on the reverse at all   It's a kind of dull gold-y colour (but not actually gold, of course).

I still can't think where my parents might have got it from though 

STG

[Flattybasher9]

I wonder if your's is Silver gilt.

Regards

Malky