A new old IAB, a beauty...

[Robert P.]

I just took this off my new Heer uniform to see if anyone could make a trace on which maker made it. It's a beautiful early hollow-back badge with excellent silvering both on the front and reverse. Just enough wear to the front to determine it's brass base metal. I like the raised oak leave tips and the heavy wide rifle stock on this badge. It looks like fine polished silverware. Just a super badge....Yes, I like it.

Robert

[Robert P.]

the reverse...

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[Don D.]

Looks like a daisy to me.

[Robert P.]

Looks like a daisy to me.

Do you mean the same maker (unknown) as the 'daisy' tank badge?

Robert

[greg.hays]

Yes that is what he means. The same unknown maker as the Dasiy PAB. This looks like a beautiful 1st pattern in buntmetal with just enough wear.......classic

[franki]

Hello,

it is a "Daisy" IAB so called second type.

Best Franki

[Don D.]

I remember them by the look on the eagle's face. He looks constipated.

[Robert P.]

Thanks everyone! I've almost given up collecting the zincers. These early badges made of brass and silver plating are here to stay and pass on to many generations beyond us. I could kick myself for selling my flat-backed buntmetal IAB's I've had over the years. They're really getting tough to find anymore.

Robert

[fischer]

Great looking badge Robert!!!

I have one also and it is one of my favorites.

Regards, fischer

[Hans N]

L vely Daisy Robert

[Robert P.]

Thanks guys,

Looking through M. Tucker's combat badge book it states that these hollow-back silver-plated badges were produced from 1940-42. When was the first IAB produced, and were they bronze core or brass core? Weren't they around before 1940?

A side note...I started subscribing to The Military Advisor just after Yuri Desyatnik's feature article on the IAB, Part I. I never saw Part I. I do have his Part 2, and it is extremely interesting to see all the variations offered by this community of collectors. To anyone who has the Part I article, did Yuri volunteer any dates regarding the first IAB production? I know this piece is early, maybe prewar, but I would like to know just how early.

Robert

[Frank Heukemes]

Hi Robert,

Nobody can give you the exact date of production. I the case of Mike Tucker's book, these dates can also only be assumptions. There are no records when each variant of each maker was made. In your case, you can assume your bade is "early," could have been made until 1942.