A First War British and Commonwealth Badge Belt

A First War British and Commonwealth Badge Belt; This webbed fabric khaki belt has a leather tab with six adjustable holes at the right end and a magnetic metal buckle stitched to a tab at the left end, a leather tab stitched along the bottom edge at the buckle end, the belt with twenty-seven items attached: four cap badges (British The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), bronze, 35 mm x 56 mm; British The Royal Highlanders "Black Watch", white metal, 57.7 mm x 73 mm; Canadian Grenadier Guards, bronze, 37 mm x 43.5 mm; and West Yorkshire Regiment, two-piece construction, bronze and white metal, 43.5 mm x 49.5 mm), three Artillery collar tabs (bronze, two are 19 mm x 25 mm, one is 18.8 mm x 31.8 mm), three shoulder titles (two "Canada", bronze, 11.2 mm x 53.5 mm and 10.5 mm x 49.5 mm; one British The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), bronze, 11.8 mm x 49.5 mm), two sweetheart pins (British East Yorkshire Regiment, bronze with white and blue enamels, 23.5 mm x 27.5 mm; Royal Field Artillery, bronze with red and blue enamels, 28.5 mm x 28.5 mm) and fifteen buttons (Canada General Service: one is 13.5 mm, ten are 18 mm; British General Service: three are 17.2 mm, one is 24.3 mm). The various badges and buttons are held in position via a series of period sliders, lugs and pins, large safety pins, wires and shoe laces, the belt measuring 55 mm wide x 730 mm in length. It exhibits scattered nips in the fabric on the obverse where previous badges once resided, wear evident in the leather from active wear, very fine.