Product Category: Pre 1922 Irish Badges

A lovely and rare matching  pair of gilt metal collar badges from the collars of the scarlet dress uniform of an officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusileirs.  This pair are most likely Victorian period. Silver castle and gilt metal flaming More Info »

This is the finest example I have come across of a “Royal Munster Fusiliers Old Comrades Association” badge. Gilt and blue enamel, almost pristine condition. Maker marked to reverse “The Adershot Stores”  

Nice Leinsters cap badge, circa 1900, other ranks. Probably not cleaned for the past 100 years, could do with a polish. Oval shaped sweat holes to reverse. To see reverse image, click on picture.  

A fine example of an early Inniskilling Dragoons cap badge, probably 1900 – 1914 period. This fine original cap badge has the door and windows voided and has round sweat holes to reverse. For image of reverse click on picture. More Info »

Brass Trinity College Dublin, Officer Training Corps shoulder title, 3 lugs to reverse.  

Nice original white metal cap badge to the Royal Irish Rifles. This badge has the early style slider to reverse, where the slider is bent back and stretches down the reverse of the badge, thus adding strength to the badge More Info »

This is an original SIH cap badge and it dates to the period of the Great War. It has a blackened brass appearance, typical of original SIH badges at that time. Slider to reverse.  

From the same source as the Irish Volunteer insignia listed below and in known Irish collections for over 30 years, this is a cloth wheeled cross. Manufactured to a high standard from white thread on a circular green woollen backing, More Info »

From the same source as the brass trefoil and in known Irish collections for over 30 years, this is a cloth manufactured piece of Irish Volunteer insignia comprising a green trefoil, its thread stitched onto a circular black woollen backing. More Info »

This is a virtually unique original piece of Irish Volunteer history to be offered on the market. A small trefoil (Volunteer officer rank insignia) stuck from brass and with two prongs to reverse, each of which has a single circular More Info »

A Royal Irish Fusiliers other ranks busby badge as worn on the number one unifrom fur hat. Old and original.  

Three brass grenades that were worn above the shoulder titles of the Dublin and Munster Fusiliers as well as Lancaster Fusiliers. These small grenades were worn above the shoulder title RDF or RMF. Useful set of three. Thet date from More Info »

Original and early, this bi metal (brass and white metal) cap badge of the 4th. Royal Irish Dragoon Guards (the first cavalry regiment to see action  during the Great War in August 1914) has a slider to reverse along with More Info »

This is a lovely old example of the Victorian cap badge that was worn by the famous 18th. Royal Irish Regiment.  The Royal Irish recruited its soldiers in the South East of Ireland, from counties Wexford, Waterford and Tipperary.  The More Info »