Silesian Eagle?

[Eric Gaumann]

Any comments on how this looks? The obverse looks good to me. It exhibits the lack of symetry on the eagle's shoulder's feathers that seems to be the rule.

[Eric Gaumann]

Her'es the reverse. The hack job on the soldering of the screw post makes me wince. Is there anybody that thinks this part's OK? I see no evidence of a hinge and catch being removed and replaced by the screwback.

[Eric Gaumann]

Finally, the back of the screwpost disc. I can't remember if the lack of the little nipple in the center means anything anymore or not.

[Rick Research]

Interesting! Never saw a screwback before!

Since the soldering on the post does not match the job done on the disk, I'd suspect that it came off at some point, all that stress on the weak post, and was home repaired by the owner...

can't you just hear this snagging in his overcoat, going "pop" as the insufficiently strong center-of-mass post went "plunk!" and it slithered down onto the floor?

[Eric Gaumann]

So does it look good enough to bid on or not? Aside from the solder job I feel pretty good about it.

[Eric Gaumann]

Please, does *anybody* have any comments on this badge before I shell out hard-earned dough on this?

[Rick Research]

Well, we don't know what the selling price is! If it was a good price, I'd have no problems with it.

[VerKuilen Ager]

I don't recall seeing a screwback of this in my (good grief has it been that long!) 45+ years of collecting. Don't see any signs of the aging and color loss on the insets (a common sign on these because of the proximity of different metals). This is an "if in doubt, don't" piece in my opinion.