Hello, all. I'm trying to determine which Army FJ eagle is correct in Durante's book. On page 456 of his book its depicts a photo of an "aluminum" eagle from a Juncker "Transitional" Heer FJ badge. But on page 468 it shows the exact same eagle for a Juncker 3rd pattern zinc eagle. It's the same photo. Does anyone know which eagle it actually is? It looks from the surface to be aluminum but I don't know anymore. Thanks!
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Well, I just looked at the rivets for the same two different types of badges, the Juncker "Transitional" and the 3rd pattern zinc and the photos of the rivets on the back (p. 460 and 468) are also the same photo, so now I don't know which rivets go with which badge. Has anyone else noticed duplicated photos incorrectly assigned to a particular badge? I'd like to annotate my copy of the book if this has been observed by anyone else. Danke. -
Hi Rakk1,
The 3rd Pattern Juncker Heer para eagle is zink. The picture is indeed wrong, but the description underneath the picture is correct on page 468.
A good rule of thumb with Juncker badges is to see what type of materials the rivets are made out of. If the rivets are aluminum, you can bet eagle is aluminum too.
When Juncker switched to zink eagles, they started using brass rivets on their Heer FJ badges. So when you see brass rivets, then you can be pretty confident the eagle is made from zink. Also, bubbling of the finish is also a tell tale sign of zink eagles.
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