Rare forgetcha officer badge, 1850s – 1860s

First the cockades on officers ' caps appeared in 1844, and resembles a cockade for dvupolnyh hats. Since the latter is a corrugated plate made of moire ribbon, and the first officer forgetme cockade was a kind of imitation of the hat cockades, only not round but oval, and not of silk, and metal. Officer forgetme badges 1840s – 1850s usually made of silver, with deep engraving, reproducing the pattern of the moire and the corrugations that occur when you minimize the ribbon, decorated with hot enamel, and carry the trial and the registered mark of the manufacturer. This badge is their further development, as evidenced by the presence of the characteristic ribbing and trim under invoice moire ribbon. The difference is in the design (this badge was going from gold plated with enamel center superimposed on a silver basis), and material (copper coated). Like all early badges, it is of small size (28*36 mm). Be worn it could either on the cap or on the so-called "cloth cap" mod. 1862, commonly often called the cap, where, judging by the position of clasps attached to the top of the state coat of arms. Cheaper material used, apparently, based on the total reduction in officers ' living standards as a result of continuous depreciation of money in the reign of Alexander II. Badges of this type practically do not occur today. Disuse they came out, judging from indirect sources, no later than mid-1860s the Guarantee of authenticity.