WW2 Royal Corps Of Signals Association Badge No 2741

For sale is WW2 British Army Royal Corps Of Signals Association Enamel & Silver Badge. Unfortunately there is a little enamel loss on the badge so please take a look at the photos for this. On the back it’s numbered to the member of the Royal corps of signals which in this case is No 2741, but the rarest part of all is the maker; “Silversmiths and Goldsmiths Co Ltd London”. Which dates the badge from 1898-1952. 

History of the maker: 

The firm was established in 1880 by William Gibson (d. 1913) and John Lawrence Langman (1846-1928).

The firm was active at 112 Regent Street, London acquiring the premises previously used by John Joseph Mechi.

In 1893 the firm absorbed The Goldsmiths' Alliance Ltd (late A.B. Savory & Sons) and in 1898 became the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd being active as jewellers, dealers in diamonds and precious stones, silversmiths, electroplaters and watch and clock makers.

In 1952 Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd was amalgamated with Garrard & Co Ltd.

The firm participated to a number of national and international exhibitions, as Indian and Colonial Exhibition (London, 1886), Paris (1889), Chicago (1893), California (1894), Paris (1900) and Franco-British Exhibition (London, 1908).

The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co was active with manufactories at Newcastle Place, Clerkenwell; Regent Works, Sheffield and Rue St George, Paris and as retailer of items supplied by various British gold and silver manufacturers (Martin Hall & Co Ltd, W&G Sissons, Wakely & Wheeler, William Comyns, Harrison Brothers & Howson, etc.) 

CHRONOLOGY

The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co - 1880 - 1898

The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd - from 1898-1952 

amalgamated with Garrard & Co - 1952 onwards 

About The Royal Signals Association:

The Royal Signals Association (RSA) was formed in 1920 at the birth of the Corps from the Royal Engineers. The objects of the Association are:

To provide comfort and relief either generally or individually to past and present signallers and their dependants who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress. To foster comradeship and morale within the Corps family, serving and retired.

This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.