Scott,
Great meeting you at the show and I am glad you nabbed some good badges. Rangers might not be too bad this year.....we are about to find out though pretty soon.
Cheers,
Kale
Don´t throw away your fake WB´s! Get in touch with me.
I collect them for reference purposes for the benefit of the hobby (for the right "fake" price of course).
You must know the guy on the door, it looks like they let you in first !!
You always seem to find some awesome badges.
The Wurster IAB is just terrific
How do you feel about the GWL PAB catch? It is not a textbook shape and with the finish on that badge I would expect to see some bronze on the catch too.
Yes, sorry to say Scott the catch on that GWL PAB is a replacement.
This one stopped my heart 2 years ago at the SOS, thought I found a gem but noticed the catch repair and put it back down. A year later, Dave Wyatt found the same one and bought it, only to show it to me a little later in the show where I gave him the bad news. Looks like you were the latest victim.
A very hard to see repair, but if you look at a side view of the catch, you can see the shape is not correct and that was the first red flag for me. Then, if you look close right at the bottom of the new catch, you can see the original solder from the original catch.
Sad thing is, both I and Dave told the seller that the catch was a replacement, so he must have blatantly disregarded our observations and sold it without mentioning the repair
Tom
p.s., Graeme, very good eagle eye you have! Its a very well done repair and one that was hard to spot even in hand. Well done.
Tom
If it doesn't have a hinge and catch, I'm not interested......well, maybe a little
New Book - The German Close Combat Clasp of World War II
Thanks guys at least I got it cheap or I guess it was priced accordingly
First in Graeme Hardly mate, stayed up till 4 am doing shots and drinking with 2 Aussies next morning got to show walked around for 30 minutes and decided to head back and nap for 4 hours funny thing about it was later when I came back ran into Tom and Marc and they were like " you just getting here" I was like no Ive been here
You must know the guy on the door, it looks like they let you in first !!
You always seem to find some awesome badges.
The Wurster IAB is just terrific
How do you feel about the GWL PAB catch? It is not a textbook shape and with the finish on that badge I would expect to see some bronze on the catch too.
No one has seen Giel since he ran off with that 19yr old. I think either you guys lost him or else he has moved to Kentucky...maybe a shotgun wedding boys!
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