Visitor Comments

I too have seen the new cap badge...

From a design standpoint, it's one of the weakest heraldic devices I've ever seen come out from the college of heralds...or whoever had the oversight here to come up with the "new design".

This badge breaks one of the very first laws of heraldry...that being the superimposed positioning of 2 METALS, (gold & silver) next to, or over each other.

I agree with an earlier posted comment about the scroll--it's not at all legible if it were laid out flat...it's not believeable, doesn't make design sense, and looks like some kind of 'afterthought' plastered at the foot of the St. Andrew's cross.

No thistles? What of the carrying-over of some of the other regimental elements to form a new badge? Absolutely NO regard for this is shown in this new badge.

Speaking as a professional artist, I would give this badge a big fat "F". Back to the drawing board, Heralds & Lord Lyon--or again, whoever is in charge of this fiasco called the "new cap badge".

ADAM L. SMITH
PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A
19 August 2005