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Sunday 4 March 2012

Rising Sun Collar Badge: Sand Cast

ID Number    PERS009

Title                Rising Sun Collar Badge

Maker             Unknown

Object Type  
Badge

Place made     North Africa: Egypt

Date made      c 1915

Physical          Bronze
Description

Description

Sand cast bronze AIF Rising Sun collar badge with a pair of lug fittings on the reverse. The badge appears to have been cast from an original AIF badge, and was probably made in Egypt as a replacement to a lost or missing collar or peaked cap badge.


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