SOS pickups

[Thomas Durante]

He's maybe hiding in Texas trying to avoid going back home broke

............and with syphilis

[Giel VW]

Well that's what you get when you tip them abundantly, you greedy old badge collectors.

Nice asses Scott euhm badges I mean.

[scott3000]

A goth chic that hangs out at gay bars sounds like Calverts type not your Giel

[Dave Wyatt]

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

Uh oh!! Looks like I wasn't the only one fooled by this one. At least you didn't get fooled twice!!

[Flemming]

Nice addition of badges indeed.

/Flemming