New PAB arrival

[Chet Sowersby]

Gentlemen,
As Greg would say, "here is my newest addition to the motor pool". It appears to be a B.H. Mayers with a earlier hinge/pin set up than what has been previously posted.

[Chet Sowersby]

Reverse

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Catch

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Hinge and catch

[Frank Heukemes]

Wow, a very nice and more unusual example indeed, Chet!

[Don D.]

Excellent pab, Chet.
Don

[Levesque]

Hi Chet,
Really nice PAB to add to your collection..probably hard to find these in such great condition.
Dan

[Bob Hunter*]

Outstanding badge, Chet! Congratulations on adding it to your collection.

[Philippe DB]

Morning Chet,

Indeed a nice example but for sure not an early BH Mayer/F&R PAB.

This is not a buntmetall but a feinzink PAB and it's difficult to find this type in halfway decent condition. I'll have a look in my files this evening to see if I can find an example with that type of hinge. In relation to the catch I'm quite confident that this is a war time replacement. As far as I know this question marked catch was never used on these PAB's.

Chet just for the record could you provide us with the measurement of that badge.

KR
Philippe

[Chet Sowersby]

Philippe,
Here are the measurements as requested. Height 60 Width 43 Weight 21.19
Thanks!

Chet

[Philippe DB]

Morning Chet,


Well the clue Like I expected is in the weight here. This is a very uncommon BH Mayer feinzink badge and the first I see that didn't receive the frosted finish.

When you compare these badges to what I believe to be the Frank & Reif made hollow zinc badges the weight is the big giveaway. 14 to 16 for F&R with a low quality finish and 20 to 22 for the high qaulity BH Mayer product.

Problem for me when I saw you badge is that the 3 heavy hollow zinc BH Mayers I ever had the opportunity of handling always were in mint condition and I couldn't really see what the base material was. In fact for a long time I believed them to be buntmetall badges. In the meantime I found out that they are indeed made of zink as is clearly visible on your badge too.

So what you found IMO is this badge but with a normal finish and a variant hinge.

KR
Philippe

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