SPANISH FRANCO ???? Pilots badge ...exact period of manurfacture help required ...
Article about: Hi, To date i have had so many differing opinions from various collectors on the date of this badges production,from the Spanish Civil War to more recently 1970s...it is unmarked. and has bu
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For me is fifties / sixties.
Later examples from the seventies usually have a pinback system copied from US insignia.
Civil war examples don't look so <<industrially>> made (the crown's manufacturing technique is rather telling).
Furthermore, they ALWAYS have an enamelled black eagle between the red disc and the propeller (see pictures of Legion Condor veterans or Spanish Escuadrilla Azul in Russia).
Many are marked with the most common manufacturer <<ROKISKI>> So common a manufacturer that nowadays these airforce wings are generally called <<rokiskis>> in Spain.
Sometimes you may see original examples with the eagle removed during the fifities when the model was modified (the eagle was just held in place by the speciality insignia and its screw), but this one does not seem the case.
As you may know already, the propeller stands for an airplane pilot.
The bubbling is rather a manufaturer's variation (although it is true that wartime-early post war examples tend to have a better quality bubbling or design to make the red disc glow with light).
I don't collect airforce wings but I've seen very many from 1913 pattern (I even own one) till now.
As a matter of curiosity, the Spanish army was the first to use a winged motif for airforce personnel (inspired from an ancient Egypt design). This example is a direct heir (as the basic design did not change much with time).
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For me is fifties / sixties.
Later examples from the seventies usually have a pinback system copied from US insignia.
I think your answer lies here in this 5 year old post. I believe he is right about the pinback system being from the 70's. Most of the older ones I have encountered or own in my collection have a separate clasp back mechanism like this.
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