WW1 Canadian Machine Gun Corps Regimental Sweetheart Enamel Badge
Code: 14658
SOLD
For sale is a WW1 Canadian Machine Gun Corps Regimental Sweetheart Enamel Gilded Badge. This is in mostly good condition, unfortunately there is some enamel damage to the blue enamel on the Canadian scroll on the bottom. This sweetheart brooch has a maple leaf backed pair of crossed vickers guns surmounted by a Crown, with blue enamel Canada' scroll below.
These little brooches are miniature replicas of the badges of military regiments, naval units, the Royal Flying Corps and the RAF, generally known as sweetheart brooches because they were often given as romantic keepsakes by members of the armed forces to their wives and girlfriends before they left for the front. One Londoner recalled that they ‘were received as gifts, love tokens or symbols to display that one of your loved ones was “doing their bit”‘ and remembered that ‘almost every female seemed to wear one’. Widely sold in retail and jewellery stores throughout the country and in small shops set up in military camps where last-minute gifts could be purchased before embarkation, families visibly articulated their support for their men as they left for potentially lengthy periods of separation in wartime by wearing brooches that matched the soldiers’ insignia.
This will be dispatched via Royal special delivery and dispatched within two working days.
