Picked from vet's daughter.Original?
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Very nice...you are quite lucky!
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Chris G.Comment
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Devoid of finish but a nice example.
ChetZinc stinks!Comment
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Nice badge! think of the front line service the awardee had seen, a rare old timer!
KevinComment
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Very nice original piece. Just missing its gold finish.Kind regards,
Giel
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I can only agree, a fine original. Too bad about the faded finish, but very typical of JFS #Badges.
TomIf it doesn't have a hinge and catch, I'm not interested......well, maybe a littleNew Book - The German Close Combat Clasp of World War II
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Appreciate your responses.Interesting story with this badge.Obtained from vet's daughter in a cigar box along with currency and a crude knife fashioned out of a deer's hoof and an Army Paratrooper and a CCC (vetted here).She said there was also a Luger with "a long barrel" and I'm thinking maybe an "Artillary"-I got to have this!But the spouse had gotten rid of it.Why??? The vet had killed himself with it.
Best regards,SteveComment
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Very nice badge! Congrats! I would rub some Vaseline over that badge with an old toothbrush, it is starting to get some zinc pest which left untreated will ruin this beauty.
JeffLooking for a 30 '06 Chauchat magazine.Comment
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Nice badge, wish these were made in NS/Tombak.
What killer badges would that be.Comment
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Original badge, IMO.Comment
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If you decide to do that use a new very fine extra soft tooth brush, then use a hair drier so that the Vaseline will spread evenly all over the badge.Let the badge set over night and then take a soft cloth and wrap it around the toothbrush and clean.....jmo.Oh yea ....you have a very rare and nice badge there.Originally posted by Jeff V View Post
Dennis JComment
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Considering it is zinc it will never get any better. Cover it up vaseline and keep your fingers crossed.
ChetZinc stinks!Comment
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Very nice Badge
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Hi Snoman......
......I have a 'Frozen Flesh' medal that I picked up from one of our members...oh 11 or 12 years ago, that had some really nasty zinc pest on it. I will be posting it in the firearms section soon, pictured with a Luger(in relic condition) that a friend of mine recently gave me.
My point is that I have left it untreated with anything, since I received it, and the pest hasn't gone any further than it had by the time I got it.
I think that atmospheric conditions(translate that into humidity) make all the difference to how zinc pest spreads.
As the guys have stated...a bit of petroleum jelly, judiciously applied, will give it a 'like new' appearance; in most cases when the pest is as light as it is on your badge.
Nice badge. Is that a die flaw on the left leg of the swaz?
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