Pillow-Crimp IAB

[Tom Yanacek]

Hi guys,

Here is a pillow-crimp Infantry Assault Badge that I got at this weekend's OVMS Show. The catch plate on this one is atop the crimp rather than set down inside it.

Best regards,
Tom

[stewy]

Good find Tom, with a slight variant of catch set up. Stewy

[Tom Yanacek]

Good find Tom, with a slight variant of catch set up.

Thanks, Stewy.

Here are a few pictures of the hinge crimp...

[Tom Yanacek]

.... and here are a couple of pictures showing the catch plate soldered atop the crimp boss.

[Tom Yanacek]

overall, oblique shot of the reverse:

[Giel VW]

Nice one Tom. Typical to see these later pillow crimp with the catch soldered on.

[Tom Yanacek]

Nice one Tom. Typical to see these later pillow crimp with the catch soldered on.

Thanks, Giel.

Best regards,
Tom

[Thomas Durante]

Hi Tom,

Nice pickup indeed. Not the first maker to have reverted back to soldering-on their hardware after the crimper failed, we see that on quite a few other later-war makers like FLL, H&CL, etc. I think our friend Tenten also has one of these pillow-crimp IABs with soldered on catch like yours. Nice variant addition.

Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

Thanks, Tom.

Here is another "pillow crimp" Infantry Assault Badge from my collection. This example has the proper catch plate crimp.

Best regards,
Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

The recessed and crimped catch/catch plate:

[Thomas Durante]

Another beauty Tom

Here is one of mine.

[Thomas Durante]

Here is another, this time in the Bronze grade; much harder to track down.

Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

Here is another, this time in the Bronze grade; much harder to track down.

Hi Tom,

Thanks for posting those two nice examples. I especially like that bronze one since they are very hard to come by as you mentioned. I've never had a bronze pillow crimp IAB in my collection.

Best regards,
Tom

[Graeme]

Nice find Tom,

Great badges in this thread Bronze are hard to find.

The new badge you have certainly looks like it has the same catch and catch plate as the "normally" found crimped in ones. I don't recall seeing too many of the "pillow crimp" with this soldered set up.

Your side by side shots are excellent. When you get a moment it would be nice if you could post a side by side of the right pic in post #4 and the left pic in post # 10, so we see the crimped and soldered catches together.

best regards
Graeme

[Tom Yanacek]

When you get a moment it would be nice if you could post a side by side of the right pic in post #4 and the left pic in post # 10, so we see the crimped and soldered catches together.

Hi Graeme,

Thanks for the comments and consider it done.

Best regards,
Tom

Soldered catch plate on left and crimped catch plate on right: