Nice addition Adrian How many is that now ??
Nick
Nice addition Adrian How many is that now ??
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
Hi Ade,i'd agree i think it's a post war repair. But it doesn't detract from a nice S&L! Congrats Stewy.
Cheers for the comments Guys!
Nick, that makes twelve altogether now.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
Thanks for pointing out that die flaw. I just went and looked for it on mine.
It is indeed a very difficult theme to threat!
I think zink or tombac would have need a different handling; different pressure on the die etc...
Could have been the same die , only with the difference of pressure, that the "flaw" would show in the higest pressure form...
It is also intriging, when did the "flaw" appeard in the die, if it wasn't there from the begining that means some badges without that flaw might have been made....
All speculations of course.
Lets strat the search after "the" badge without the "flaw"!!
;-)
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I had 3, but only one left and that is a unmarked one, so no luck so far...
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Hi Kris, here's the reverse of my tombak S&L Minesweeper, as you can see, there is no flaw. To my knowledge, all zincers by this maker do have the flaw but the tombak badges don't. I know nothing about the different pressures used to strike the badges in different materials so I will bow to your knowledge in this area.
If you open the reverse image of the zinc badge and the pic below and compare them side by side you will notice the trimming outline is more or less exactly the same, taking into account minor variations from the finishing process so to my mind, both badges came from the same tooling.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
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