Regimental Embellishments
Badge Backings, Feather Plumes and Horse-Hair Hackles
Many military units wear coloured backings behind their cap badges - mainly
on berets. Most Scottish units wear tartan patches on Tam o'Shanters.
Plumes are made of horse-hair and used on Bearskin caps and Busby hats.
Hackles are made from coloured feathers and worn behind the cap badge.
Not only do these improve the display of a collection, the
embellishments are collectable items in their own right, as many are
linked to events in the history of the unit. Most backings are hard to
obtain as the felts and tartans are made from top quality military-specification
materials, not normally available from retail shops.
A superb book on this subject is -
Badge
Backings and Special Embellishments of the British Army. ISBN
0951434209: published in 1992 by the UDR Benevolent Fund.
A superb unique reference work - the only book on this subject. Many pictures
and information direct from the regiments concerned.
Prices are in British Pounds Sterling and you may order
online or order by mail.
With effect from 1 June 2007, there will be a minimum charge of £1.50 postage and packing for all orders. If Royal Mail costs exceed this amount, then the charge will be cost-price, i.e. the price of the stamps. click here for postage costs.
The first 6 figures of each line is our Stock Serial Number - use this when ordering. Where applicable, the next set of figures is a reference to
standard insignia reference books.
Miscellaneous
 B1O960 (Single) Cavalry / Yeomanry Shoulder Chain Mail - Used With Holes For Rank Etc Steel £15.00
B1C018 Other Ranks Royal Welch Fusiliers Flash (5 Black 7 Inch Ribbons For Back Of Collar) Braid £8.00
B1F835 Officers Royal Welch Fusiliers Flash (5 Black 9 Inch Ribbons For Back Of Collar) Braid £10.00
Cap Badge Backings
E1L717 10th PMO Gurkha Rifles (75mm Square Worn On Felt Hat Hunting Stewart Tartan £4.00
E1N277 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars Red Badge-Shape Felt £3.00
E1D681 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles Badge-Shaped - Red Felt £3.00
E1J976 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (75mm Square) Government Tartan 1A Tartan £4.00
E1K049 Bosnia Army Air Corps Beret Badge Backing Blue-Black 50mm Sq Felt £3.00
E1C170 Cameron Highlanders Or QO Highlanders Or 7th Gurkhas Tartan £4.00
E1J978 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (75mm Square) Douglas Tartan Tartan £4.00
E1L896 Duke Of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Small Red Triangle Felt £3.00
E1C023 Duke Of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) Red Rounded Triangle Felt £3.00
E1J996 Edinburgh & Heriot-Watt Universities OTC Hunting Stewart Tartan £4.00
E1J994 Glasgow & Strathclyde Universities OTC (75mm Square) Mackenzie (vertical) Tartan £4.00
E1C542 Gordon Highlanders Or The Highlanders (75mm Square) Gordon Tartan Tartan £4.00
E1K047 Bosnia Green Howards Beret Badge Backing Dark Green 50mm Sq. Felt £3.00
E1C020 Guards & Household Cavalry Badge Backing (2" X 2½") Blue/Maroon/Blue Ribbon £3.00
E1J977 Highland Light Infantry / R Highland Fus (75mm Sq) Mackenzie (Vertical) Tartan £4.00
E1J964 King's Own Royal Border Regiment Red Diamond Felt £3.00
E1C547 King's Own Scottish Borderers (75mm Square) Leslie Tartan Tartan £4.00
E1C544 King's Regiment Beret Badge Backing 45mm Red Square Felt £3.00
E1K069 King's Regiment Other Ranks Side-Hat Badge Backing Dark Green Disc Felt £3.00
E1J998 Liverpool University Officers Training Corps 45mm Red Square Felt £3.00
E1J997 Manchester & Salford Universities OTC 45mm Red Square Felt £3.00
E1I941 Officer Cadet - Circular White Disc 65mm Diameter Plastic £3.00
E1C693 Parachute Regiment - 15th Battalion (57mm Diamond) Hunting Stewart Tartan £4.00
E1F766 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Scarlet Tear-Drop Felt £3.00
E1N192 New in 2003 Queen's Lancashire Regiment Beret Badge Backing Primrose Diamond Foam £3.00
E1C416 Bosnia Queen's Lancashire Regiment Beret Badge Backing Yellow Diamond Plastic £3.00
E1N275 Queen's Royal Lancers Red Badge-Shape Felt £3.00
E1C022 Royal Army Medical Corps Beret Badge Backing Dull Cherry Oval Felt £3.00
E1O796 Royal Dragoon Guards For Officers & WO's Beret Small Maroon Diamond Felt £3.00
E1I122 Bosnia Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment Large Red Triangle Felt £3.00
E1I523 Royal Gurkha Rifles (57mm Square Worn On Felt Hat) Hunting Stewart Tartan £4.00
E1G871 Royal Marines Recruits Red Tombstone Felt £3.00
E1C546 Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) - Hunting Stewart 75mm Square Tartan £4.00
E1J975 Royal Scots Fusiliers (Pre-1948 - 75mm Square) Government Tartan 1 Tartan £4.00
E1O381 Scots Guards Officers Beret Badge Backing (2" X 2½") Royal Stuart Tartan Ribbon £4.00
E1I236 Staffordshire Regiment Current Type Hessian £3.00
E1J995 Tayforth Universities Officers Training Corps Hunting Stewart Tartan £4.00
E1G038 Bosnia Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Lincoln Green Felt £3.00
Feather Hackles and Horse-hair Plumes
V1C769 Brown/Red/Green Hackle: Royal Tank Regiment Band 3-Colour - Flat Feather £10.00
V1L096 Coldstream Guards Red Cut-Feather Bearskin Plume SNCOs & Band - Large Feather £25.00
V1C270 Green Hackle: Royal Irish Rangers / Fusiliers Feather £4.00
V1I432 Irish Guards Blue Horse-Hair Bearskin Plume Other Ranks £18.00
V1P617 Irish Guards Pipers Blue Feather Hackle Other Ranks Feather £10.00
V1P523 Lancashire Fusiliers Yellow Horsehair Plume For Fusilier Bearskin £20.00
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