Hello dear friends,
Just back from a raid on the Stuttgart show and before hitting the hay I wanted to share a very special find with you.
Untill yesterday I was confident that a bronze buntmetall version of the sc "Porsche" PAB never existed. At one of the last stands we visited yesterday my eye fell on a lonely bronze PAB. After asking the seller to have a look at it I immediately recognized it as a Porsche PAB but since it was bronze it never even crossed my mind that it could be anything else than a zinc hollow badge. Since these are already extremely rare I quickly closed the deal and put in in the bag together with the rest of the loot.
Half an hour later I met up with Frank and showed him the results of a days PAB hunting. I pointed out the Porsche PAB to him and than it happened. Frank took a close look, rubbed it a couple of times and asked me if I was sure it was a zinker. Very quicly it became clear that it wasn't made out of zinc but out of buntmetall.
Although it features a broader based hinge than it's silver brother (which probably put me on the wrong foot from the start) it doesn't feature a plate under the catch. The catch is neatly soldered directly to the badge just like on the silver version.
After comparing it to it's silver brother it's my opinion that quality wise,(probably due to the use of a lesser base metall), it falls short a little, but overall it matches up to the high standards of early buntmetall PAB production.
So here she is guys, never seen before on this forum and I hope you like her as much as I do
KR
Philippe
Just back from a raid on the Stuttgart show and before hitting the hay I wanted to share a very special find with you.
Untill yesterday I was confident that a bronze buntmetall version of the sc "Porsche" PAB never existed. At one of the last stands we visited yesterday my eye fell on a lonely bronze PAB. After asking the seller to have a look at it I immediately recognized it as a Porsche PAB but since it was bronze it never even crossed my mind that it could be anything else than a zinc hollow badge. Since these are already extremely rare I quickly closed the deal and put in in the bag together with the rest of the loot.
Half an hour later I met up with Frank and showed him the results of a days PAB hunting. I pointed out the Porsche PAB to him and than it happened. Frank took a close look, rubbed it a couple of times and asked me if I was sure it was a zinker. Very quicly it became clear that it wasn't made out of zinc but out of buntmetall.
Although it features a broader based hinge than it's silver brother (which probably put me on the wrong foot from the start) it doesn't feature a plate under the catch. The catch is neatly soldered directly to the badge just like on the silver version.
After comparing it to it's silver brother it's my opinion that quality wise,(probably due to the use of a lesser base metall), it falls short a little, but overall it matches up to the high standards of early buntmetall PAB production.
So here she is guys, never seen before on this forum and I hope you like her as much as I do
KR
Philippe
. These guys didn't know what hit them
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You are begining to remind me of the person on the helmet forum that is referred to as the "helmet hog". You could fall down in a pile of sh!t and come up with a mint PAB in between your teeth!
Please take a pic of you entire PAB collection. I mean will it fit on the restricted size
but it for sure was an amazing luftbadge, wasn't it
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