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thanks for your comments Mike, I too have seen fake cliche examples with a Paul Maybauer crest on reverse but the one I saw had ,strangely enough, much bigger acorns on the Oak leaf side of the wreath and was made from some sort of alloy with a modern 'silver' type finish and an unconvincing patina applied. I have been looking into A Werner und Sohne and they do seem to have produced these badges,I guess in the 20's and 30's ,also the TR section referes to the AWS pins on the 39-45 badges as having a ' waffle' crimp to the hinge end of the pin which my badge does indeed have ,while not exactly the same ,fairly simular. As I said before it is definately not cast as a casting is rigid and this is not,no casting flaws either and I am sure it is not electro-formed either as there would not be the slight double imaging on the reverse ( mentioned previously). With electro forming the reverse detail tends to 'dull ' as the badge 'builds' or plates up.The reverse detail on this is pretty sharp. Ferg1
thanks for your comments Mike, I too have seen fake cliche examples with a Paul Maybauer crest on reverse but the one I saw had ,strangely enough, much bigger acorns on the Oak leaf side of the wreath and was made from some sort of alloy with a modern 'silver' type finish and an unconvincing patina applied. I have been looking into A Werner und Sohne and they do seem to have produced these badges,I guess in the 20's and 30's ,also the TR section referes to the AWS pins on the 39-45 badges as having a ' waffle' crimp to the hinge end of the pin which my badge does indeed have ,while not exactly the same ,fairly simular. As I said before it is definately not cast as a casting is rigid and this is not,no casting flaws either and I am sure it is not electro-formed either as there would not be the slight double imaging on the reverse ( mentioned previously). With electro forming the reverse detail tends to 'dull ' as the badge 'builds' or plates up.The reverse detail on this is pretty sharp. Ferg1
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