Infantry Assault Badges

[Tom Yanacek]

Hi guys,

Went to a small military show today and bought my first pieces for the new year. Among the items I bought were these three, reasonably-priced IABs:

An Otto Schickle-design, die-stamped badge in zinc; a Gebrüder Wegerhoff badge in zinc; and a Carl Wild badge in zinc, with a pretty nice finish remaining.

Hope you like them!

Best regards,
Tom

Here is the "Schickle-design" IAB:

[Tom Yanacek]

Here is the GWL IAB:

[Tom Yanacek]

Here is the IAB by Carl Wild:

(I really like the look of this one.)

[Calvin Hall]

Nice looking badges. I especially like the Carl Wild. I have always like his design.

[scott3000]

Tom
as usual all very nice pick ups

[Bruce Simcox]

Hi Tom......

......Three good badges you picked up. The CW is very nicely defined. Congrats!

[jordi]

Hi Tom,

3 very nice examples, congrats

Best regards.
jordi

[Tom Yanacek]

Thank you!

My thanks to all for the comments.

Best regards,
Tom

[Ralph Arndt]

Tom, not only nice badges, but quality to. I like all of them.

[Thomas Durante]

Hi Tom,

Nice additions, especially the Carl Wild IAB. The Schickle and GWLs are a bit more common to find, but both are always nice quality.

Tom

[Giel VW]

I agree, very nice additions! The CW would also be my favorite!

[fischer]

Hi Tom

I can only echo what has been said...three nice originals.

The Carl Wild variant is what I refer to as the Design Type - Die 1 having the "wider" CW stacked maker mark.
Along with very subtle leaf vein differences, the Type 1 sheet metal hinge base also fits precisely inside the raised guide lines for the hardware.

Here are the two maker mark variations.

Best Regards, fischer

[Tom Yanacek]

Thank you!

Thanks for the additional comments, Ralph, Tom, Giel, and Fischer.

Best regards,
Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

Hi Fischer,

Thanks for the info on the Carl Wild IABs. As it just so happens, I have another IAB by Carl Wild and it is the type you describe as "type 2". Here are a few pictures. This one has been my collection for at least 30 years.

Best regards,
Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

And here are the two different maker markings as you outlined:

Thanks again & best regards,
Tom