<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am certain that the crown engraved on the bell pictured is post 1952 and is for our Queen Elizabeth given that in military insignia the crown shape changes according to the gender of the monarch<div>to quote</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.kellybadge.co.uk/beginner.htm#CapBadges">http://www.kellybadge.co.uk/beginner.htm#CapBadges</a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; "><h3 style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102); "><a name="Crowns"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Bell Gothic Std'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Crowns</span></font></a></h3><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Bell Gothic Std'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b>Many badges feature crowns and these can be a useful guide to identifying and dating badges. </b></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Bell Gothic Std'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b>Key dates are 1901 and 1952 as the shape of crowns on badges changed. (It may help to think of male and female crowns). Not all badges have crowns, </b></span></font></p></span></div><div><br><div><div>On 24 Sep 2008, at 19:28, David Bryant wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>A crown, above the letters ER.<br> <br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>