This winged muleshoe is the hat badge of an Army Ferrier circa 1890-1905...
it's a brass stamped piece, but the texture on the leaves is intended to emulate stitched bullion, an embroidery technique used for rank badges in the civil war employing metal threads. Like this naval hat badge...
Yes, Marvel ye mortals and dispair! There's just something awe inspiring about a properly painted and based unit of old school Airfix wargaming figures.
It's perhaps about time I talked about this book, written by Ian Livingstone with illustrations by Russ Nicholson, which was published originally in 1982, but didn't cross my path until '86 or '87. It also might have been redundant, given that I was already familiar with role-playing games, but this was bought during a period of my life when information was a lot harder to find than it is now, and I was really intrigued by the fact that here was an entire book on the topic.
