Hi guys, what are your opinions on this badge?
Thanks,
Mo
Hi guys, what are your opinions on this badge?
Thanks,
Mo
Hi mate, I know that the back is supposed to have 3 prongs bent over a small oblong metal plate, and covered with black cotton if that helps?
Personally, I would pass on this. I have seen numerous badges in silver and gold of this ilk recently. I don't like the turret hatch detail and there is detail missing from around the barrel. Also, a 4mm black line top and bottom decorates the ribbon. This example looks far to thin.
It is bad. Incorrect tank and ribbon detail.
Cheers, Ade.
Thanks for all your help guys!
Hey can I ask a question on these badges. Someone once told me they were magnetic???? that was a way to tell them as original?? Could be a furphy, I can't quite understan why there would be magnetic badges......
Surely they must have meant that the badge would be attracted by a magnet? In the same way as a Nahkampfspange backing plate is magnetic (i.e. steel) as compared to the rest of the zinc construction?
I just thought it would have been strange to have a badge attached by a magnet for a combat award on a tunic worn in the field.....or am I way off the track here
If an award is magnetic it only means that the material it was made out of is magnetic. No awards were ever worn with a magnetic attachment device of any sort.
Just to clarify, when collectors talk about a badge being magnetic, it means the badge is made of a material that will stick to a magnet. Not that the badge itself is magnetic or a magnet is used as a method of attachment.
For example an iron core of an EK will be attracted to a magnet, a brass cored EK will not.
Pin assemblies can also be magnetic. It is not unusual to find a non magnetic badge with a magnetic pin and vice versa. It just depend on the materials the award is constructed from.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
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