just flew in,....JFS 25 PAB

[Mike Pinkus]

knowing the controversy surrounding these of late...wanted to post this...shows the "shadow" mark by the hinge...maker mark is off to the right somewhat...i believe it is 100% though...comments...?

[Mike Pinkus]

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[Mike Pinkus]

close in on catch and mark

[Mike Pinkus]

and for Philippe...since i know he likes the stress marks on the catch...hopefully this will show...but they are there...as well as the one piece style catch pin.....for lack of a better way of saying it

[Mike Kenny]

Hi Mike,

Can't see anything wrong with this one! Imo 100% genuine and textbook JFS

Regards
Mike

[Philippe DB]

Hi Mike,

I agree with Mike. The badge has everything I like to see on an original. Congrats on a nice find.

KR
Philippe

[Ludwig]

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Looks OK to me, too!

[hagwalther]

Not wishing to detract from anything previously said on this thread but should the zink be showing more signs of bubbling?

Regards ...

[Ludwig]

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Not necessarily, but could we have some more close-ups please?

[Philippe DB]

Not wishing to detract from anything previously said on this thread but should the zink be showing more signs of bubbling?

Regards ...

Well the zinc itself will never show bubbling. It's the finish that will bubble. Since there is almost no finish left on the reverse of Mike's badge the bubbling can't be visible.

KR
Philippe

[hagwalther]

Not wishing to detract from anything previously said on this thread but should the zink be showing more signs of bubbling?

Regards ...

I may be throwing in a red herring here and maybe I should start a thread about aging, bubbling and zinc based badges but most of these sort of badges do appear to have more bubbling than this.

Of course, this might be a really nice example like those AS Type 2 S-Boot badges which always seem to be in mint condition.



Regards ...

[hagwalther]

Well the zinc itself will never show bubbling. It's the finish that will bubble. Since there is almost no finish left on the reverse of Mike's badge the bubbling can't be visible.

KR
Philippe

Thanks Philippe.

Well that explains it.



Regards ...

[Mike Kenny]

Not wishing to detract from anything previously said on this thread but should the zink be showing more signs of bubbling?
Regards ...

Hi,

Philippe's answer aside ( ), from what I've seen JFS in general used a better type of finish (regardless of badge, be it numbered assault, CCC, IAB, etc) which is much less prone to bubbling compared to, for example, RK marked 25/50 GABs.

Regards
Mike