Looking for a cap badge

**flairball** · 10th December 12, 10:27 PM

Hello. I am looking for a source where I might find an other than clan/Scottish badge to wear on a balmoral. Or a suitable substitute.

While I've discovered my family has a relationship with a clan it played no part in our family's tradition. I am also not trying to duplicate highland dress. I will not be wearing the balmoral with my kilt. I just would like an alternative cover, and think a balmoral looks pretty good with a sportcoat.

Thanks.

**cable scot** · 10th December 12, 10:33 PM

Ebay has a thousand cap badges look there for something you like

**MizzouScotsman** · 10th December 12, 10:35 PM

There are a multitude of places. There is one listed on the right side of the page under XMarks Advertisers, the Celtic Croft, where I have purchased clan badges before. http://www.kilts-n-stuff.com/

**madmacs** · 10th December 12, 10:46 PM

There's an xmarks badge, or a "dont let the b@stards grind you down" one which i cant find a link to at the moment...

**flairball** · 10th December 12, 10:48 PM

E-bay. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks.

Mizzou- perhaps I wasn't clear but I want a badge that doesn't have a Scottish or clan, or even Celtic motif. Perhaps it doesn't exist and I'll have to find a substitute, but ....

**MizzouScotsman** · 10th December 12, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by flairball

E-bay. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks.

Mizzou- perhaps I wasn't clear but I want a badge that doesn't have a Scottish or clan, or even Celtic motif. Perhaps it doesn't exist and I'll have to find a substitute, but ....

I guess I misread what you had wrote...my humblest apologies.

**Lime** · 11th December 12, 02:15 AM

Scotweb also has a couple of "looks like a clan badge but isn't" e.g.

http://www.scotweb.co.uk/products/thistle-cap-badge/

**English Bloke** · 11th December 12, 02:30 AM

Cheaper here And yet cheaper still (no UK tax applied) if you select USA at the "change country" dropdown.

The Three cogs, Illegitimus Non Carborundum (Don't let the Bas...) variant is called "Machine" and is at the bottom of the "select clan" dropdown.

They don't have an image of it but if you go the the Show us your Kilt Pins thread, it's Pin 13 in Post #4. In fact there are quite a few pins in that thread (not just my posts) that would work equally well as a hat badge and might give you some inspiration.

**EagleJCS** · 11th December 12, 03:57 AM

A former band mate used to wear his US Army officer's cap badge (the eagle and shield) instead of a clan badge.

I would think anything about 3 or so inches in diameter (or square) would do. Any larger runs the risk of weighing down the hat. Any smaller would look more like a lapel pin put on the hat by mistake.