India Title Badge. 3rd Class 'Khan Sahib'. GV issue, 'portrait facing right' in silver and enamel (Khan Mohammad Khan / Zaman Khan / 4th June 1928)

Award verification: The recipient Khan Mohammad Khan Zaman Khan, was decorated with the Indian Title Badge on 4 June 1928, the award being published in the King's Birthday Honours List (India) that was published in the Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore) issue of 6 June 1928.

Per above referenced source, the recipient, a Punjabi Mussalman, is shown as being Honorary Magistrate, Jullunder (Punjab)

Considering the recipient's ethnicity & faith, it is most likely that the recipient (?) if alive, and or his family descendent's would have lost their ancestral property in the wake of the partition of British India in August 1947, with the recipient and or his family relocating to Pakistan. Amongst the Mussalman migrant diaspora that relocated to Lahore Pakistan, from Jullunder, was Khan Bahadur Mohammad Zaman Khan, former Postmaster General for Punjab & NWFP, during the British rule in India, whose descendent family generated a plethora of First Class Cricketers & Cricket Administrators, including Prime Minister Imran Khan (whose mother was from the 'Basti' community of Jullunder) those migrant families from Jullunder subsequently locating to the prestigious Zaman Park district of Lahore

The reverse officially named, engraved script, on three lines

The badge fitted on a length of original silk riband. Sometime mounted for display on a white metal mounting bar, this latter now sans pin & clasp

While the Title Badges were a prolific series of awards, they remain scarce seen on the market, basis combination of returns of awards to the issuing authority, those destroyed during the latter years of the British Raj, as 'nationalist protest' and those 'lost' during the turmoil of partition

Recommendations (citations) for the ITB badges, if extant, are held at The National Archives of India, in New Delhi

The insignia with chips to obverse enamel and typical 'Bazaar Wallah' silver test marks on reverse

Scarce

Condition: About VF

Code: 23640