General Assault Badge ”50”, Buy Now with brass dolphin placed above

with brass dolphin placed above the badge (unit insignia)

maker marked "BIRKS" on the reverse

Indeed Busk was deeply involved in the debate on the theory of evolution and some sources state that he read the joint Darwin-Wallace paper at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858 - the paper was an important prelude to Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1859) - but more recent research suggests it was the Society

Quality of this badge would suggest WWII period of manufacture

fitted case of issue

General Assault Badge ”50”, Buy Now with brass dolphin placed aboveIn silvered zinc alloy, maker marked "RK", typical textbook example by this maker, magnetic pin, 48. 35mmx58. 30mm, 38. 6 grams, extremely fine condition.