Let me begin by saying thank you for indulging my odd fetish for these badges....I know I harp away on them 
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My final purchase in Germany came the day before I left at a flea market in Wuerzburg and it was a small grouping that included this IAB. On first look I thought it was a typical run of the mill OM type 2 second variant with the longer neck angle........same wreath, bla bla bla. Well now I have had a chance to sit down with all of my representatives of this class and it the situation has become more complex rather then further clarified. Many of you will remember that I thought for a time that the neck angle differences between the two variants was due to handfinishing.......not so. So we are left with the following now:
1. A variant with the "blunt beak" and the broken stem die flaw.
2. A variant with the "sharp beak" and the broken stem die flaw.
3. A third variant with the "sharp beak" and lacking the broken stem die flaw.
This may reverse the chronological order I thought was in terms of manufacture.
Short neck variant
.My final purchase in Germany came the day before I left at a flea market in Wuerzburg and it was a small grouping that included this IAB. On first look I thought it was a typical run of the mill OM type 2 second variant with the longer neck angle........same wreath, bla bla bla. Well now I have had a chance to sit down with all of my representatives of this class and it the situation has become more complex rather then further clarified. Many of you will remember that I thought for a time that the neck angle differences between the two variants was due to handfinishing.......not so. So we are left with the following now:
1. A variant with the "blunt beak" and the broken stem die flaw.
2. A variant with the "sharp beak" and the broken stem die flaw.
3. A third variant with the "sharp beak" and lacking the broken stem die flaw.
This may reverse the chronological order I thought was in terms of manufacture.
Short neck variant
I realy like these badges. That eagle looks realy mean.
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