Military and regimental insignia
Badges, stars and awards for regiments, corps and associations — to an existing pattern, or for an honour being established now.
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A regimental badge is not a logo. It has an approved pattern, a history of small variations, and a readership who will know at a glance if the crown is the wrong one. Work of this kind is as much research as bench work, and we would sooner spend a week in the records than reproduce somebody else’s mistake.
The King’s Messenger badges
Cap badges and collar badges, mess dress and cufflinks, presentation pieces, regimental silver, and replacement insignia where the original is lost or beyond repair.
Where a pattern exists we work to it exactly. Where the pattern has drifted over the years we will tell you which version we are proposing, and why. We hold patterns for a number of regiments and orders from work done previously — tell us which, and we will say whether we already have it.
Where an association, a corps or a unit is establishing something new, the design comes first and the making follows. We draw it, take it through approval with you, and make nothing until the pattern is agreed. The commission process is the same as for any other piece.
Heraldic devices are not free to invent. Where a design uses arms, a crown, or a royal cypher, permission has to come from the right place — the College of Arms, the Ministry of Defence, or the relevant Household — and we will tell you at the outset which applies and what it involves. It is far cheaper to find this out before the drawing than after the dies are cut.
Court mounting and swing mounting, miniatures for evening dress, and replicas for wear where the originals should stay in the case. Order of wear matters and is easy to get wrong; send us what you have and we will mount it correctly.
A single presentation piece, or a run for a whole unit. On a short run the tooling is the larger part of the cost, which is worth knowing before you decide how many to make — the second hundred is far cheaper than the first ten.
