Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design Archive with short old original ribbon

with short old original ribbon

illustrating a Tudor crown above a scroll inscribed "CANADA"

continuously for 36 hours

in silvery-grey cotton threads

An extremely well preserved gold grade/first class wound badge

Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design Archive with short old original ribbonIn copper gilt, voided, measuring 53. 5 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), both lugs intact, traces of gilt remains, near extremely fine. Footnote: When war came in 1914, millionaire Raymond Brutinel, a French army reserve officer who was living in Montreal, in collaboration with a prominent lawyer, Clifford Sifton, hit upon the idea of mounting machine guns on armoured cars, thus providing the double threat of firepower and mobiity. Sifton took the idea to the