Clan bonnet badge makers & sizes

[OC Richard]

OC Richard, where did you find the Images of Scotland clan badge? It is much nicer that the others and looks cleaner.

I got it recently on Ebay. I'll have to check to see who the seller was. Yes it's a nice clean casting.

I'm really going down this badge rabbit hole, and I keep running into vintage badges that are from that same "family" as the medium-size (40mm) Carrick badges.

Here's a badge stamped RA (Robert Allison) with a date letter indicating 1969. Being that they were in business until 1982, and Carrick began in 1971, I wonder if there's a direct connection, such as RA winding up and Carrick acquiring their moulds.



This badge allowed me to walk back that design further, TE (Thomas Kerr Ebbutt) date letter 1930 and obviously from the same moulds. Ebbutt date marks appear to go back to 1900, though he didn't register his mark until 1903. The firm was sold to Hamilton & Inches in 1977.



cf the medium Carrick line