Boy Scout style Cap Badges

**Standard** · 10th February 10, 08:01 PM

So do any of you lads out there have a balmoral cap badge in a Boy Scout style? I recently purchased the BSA hat pin (http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/...v=3&item=50150) but it seems to my eye to be too small to be an effective cap badge for a balmoral. Have any of you you Eagles out there come across anything in that line that would work for a cap badge?

**rocscotjoe** · 10th February 10, 08:09 PM

When I was in Scouts there were rank pins you could move from uniform to uniform, the First Class Rank pin probably has the size you're looking for. It would be a brass/gold finish fleur de lis with the eagle over it and the be prepared scroll with a small wire knot at the bottom...

Good luck!

**rocscotjoe** · 10th February 10, 08:13 PM

http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/...=&lv=3&item=17

**longhuntr74** · 10th February 10, 08:39 PM

That's funny...I'm planning on wearing that very pin on my kilt this saturday to a Boy Scout sponsored fundraiser!!!

**cavscout** · 10th February 10, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Standard

So do any of you lads out there have a balmoral cap badge in a Boy Scout style? I recently purchased the BSA hat pin but it seems to my eye to be too small to be an effective cap badge for a balmoral. Have any of you you Eagles out there come across anything in that line that would work for a cap badge?

I have the same pin intended for the same purpose. While it is a little on the small side (about 3/4" smaller than a clan badge), you could add a cockade of some sort or a rosette to it.

http://www.just2tailors.com/?category=Accessories

**gordontaos** · 11th February 10, 12:43 AM

Does any body know what size this "hat pin" is?
http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/ItemDetail.aspx?cat=01RTL&ctgy=PRODUCTS&c2=GIFTS&C 3=PINS&C4=&LV=3&item=50150&prodid=50150^8^01RTL&

**rocscotjoe** · 11th February 10, 04:52 AM

Originally Posted by gordontaos

Does any body know what size this "hat pin" is?
http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/ItemDetail.aspx?cat=01RTL&ctgy=PRODUCTS&c2=GIFTS&C 3=PINS&C4=&LV=3&item=50150&prodid=50150^8^01RTL&

It is a 1 1/4" circle...

**fluter** · 11th February 10, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by gordontaos

Does any body know what size this "hat pin" is?
http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/ItemDetail.aspx?cat=01RTL&ctgy=PRODUCTS&c2=GIFTS&C 3=PINS&C4=&LV=3&item=50150&prodid=50150^8^01RTL&

You can see it in the photo of the campaign hat. Perhaps on the small side, but I like its look.

There's another "brimmed hat" shows with the first-class insignia pin, although the text implies that it's this one or another universal emblem???

Brimmed hat shown with pin.

**cavscout** · 11th February 10, 07:34 AM

With the approval of the BSA and enough demand (which I bet there would be) you could work to develop a Boy Scout cap badge that will "fit" a bonnet

http://www.scotmall.com/handforged/c...restbadge.html

**Mark Keeney** · 11th February 10, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by rocscotjoe

When I was in Scouts there were rank pins you could move from uniform to uniform, the First Class Rank pin probably has the size you're looking for. It would be a brass/gold finish fleur de lis with the eagle over it and the be prepared scroll with a small wire knot at the bottom...

Good luck!

Rank pins should only be worn by boys of that rank. This is so adults don't overshadow the boys. Adults should only wear an Eagle pin if they earned it as a boy.

The hat pin or any universal pin should be used instead.