CCC gold?

[Roman]

Hello Gentelments!
What can you say about this CCC?
KR,
Roman

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Hm ...

Are there no coments?

KR,
Roman

[Philippe DB]

Dear Roman,


I think nobody dars to comment on such a piece not only is it an AGMuk but it's also gold, a real nightmare if you ask me.

For what it's worth I like it, the way the finish has aged does it for me, very convincing.

Would I dar to by it, thats another question.

KR
Philippe

[Frank Heukemes]

Just as a side info on convincing finishes:

A collector friend showed me recently his "golden" CCC, an original bronze clasp that once had lost all its finish. He deliberately guilt that CCC for display reasons. That was about 10 years ago and the newly applied guilding had already faded in the same original looking way like on Roman´s clasp.

[Roman]

Hi Philippe & Frank,

Thanks you that you exist, cause the other way I will be alone with CCC.

Frank, if I'm not mistaken, you think that my CCC is in bronze?
I'm not arguing with you, but I always thought that bronze cover of CCC AGMuK is one of the most high-quality. And if the CCC in bronze is covering with gold and if the gold covering is rubing away the bronze will appear through the gold.
Am I right?

KR,
Roman

[Frank Heukemes]

Dear Roman,

No, I was not even talking about your clasp, but about one of my collector friend´s clasps. What I wrote I offered and marked as "side info".

To me YOUR clasp looks rather good than bad.

[Thomas Durante]

Hi guys,

I don't like the file marks on the eagle head or grenade, looks like artificial wear by a file. I don't like the gold finish on this either. The bronze finish on most AGMuK's I've run across is thick and well applied. If it is a true gold clasp, why wouldn't the gold finish hold as well as the bronze has?

A reference I have says that AGMuK's were not issued in gold. Nothing else to back that up, and I don't see why they wouldn't, but am throwing it into the mix as well. At any rate, if I were to get a gold AGMuK, it would definately not be this one.

Tom D.

[Roman]

Hello Gentelments!
This is Detlev opinion.
KR,
Roman

[Robin Lumsden]

This is pretty basic stuff, but if you take a look at the gilding on this thing the gilding is on the HIGHLIGHTS, not the recesses. If original finish, surely the natural wear would be on the highlights, with some gilding remaining in the recesses - ie the other way round.


I've seen the same thing on many other 'refinished' badges - and also on a lot of debatable 75/100 assault badges.