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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KSW, post: 4507095, member: 8708&quot;]I just got a reply! After 2.5 years<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for query regarding the sweetheart brooch.&nbsp; I must apologise for the delay in the reply.&nbsp; You are quite right; it does refer to the Royal Corps of Signals.&nbsp; The figure in the centre is Mercury, referred to as ‘Jimmy’ in the Royal Corps of Signals. The brooch was probably made at the end of WW11 as Perspex was created in Australia around 1934 and used instead of glass in windshields for military aircraft and covers for instrument panels.</p><p><br /></p><p>After WW11 Perspex was fashioned into all kinds of fancy dress goods and decorative objects. The RAF and Royal Navy have clear Perspex fashioned into sweetheart badges using scraps of Perspex from aircraft canopies.&nbsp; There was also commercial production of these badges.</p><p><br /></p><p>From your email I would think you are correct in thinking it was Perspex taken from scrapped Perspex and it was probably made at the end or towards the end of WW11.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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