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10-16-2010 02:00 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
Looks repro to me. DonĀ“t think they did these as holh or in bronze color.
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re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
My thoughts are that it is a fake badge!
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
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re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
I have never seen a badge of this type made like this one before...........never mind the colour. Not good in my opinion.
Cheers, Ade.
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re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
Thanks for the feedback guys. Ade, when you say you haven't seen a badge of this type made like this one, do you mean the way it is put together, the fact that it's hollow, or something else entirely? Do you agree that the detail is good, or do you think the detail is even shoddy?
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re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
Hi Darren, never seen this semi hollow type construction before: but bear in mind I have never made any great study of these badges and I don't have Marc's book on them.
Cheers, Ade.
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re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
Its a poor fake.The observe is based on an original one by an unknown maker called as "ball hinge", Here is an original one to compare:
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Re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I'll put this one in the pile of fakes for future reference
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Re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
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Adrian Stevenson
Hi Darren, never seen this semi hollow type construction before: but bear in mind I have never made any great study of these badges and I don't have Marc's book on them.
Cheers, Ade.
I have to say that I bought at once the badge which was 100% identical to this one fake...
That happened in SZCZECIN flee market, Poland...
Last edited by Adrian; 10-19-2010 at 12:07 AM.
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Re: Need opinions on this odd colored Luftwaffe Flakkampfabzeichen
Bummer Bruno! I know the feeling
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