BSW Pilots.

[David Tiffin]

All though it's hard to tell from the photo of the front it looks like the first pattern BSW.

[ERIC S.]

MINE

Here's my BSW, marked Bruder Schneider AG Wien:

[ERIC S.]

flip side

And the reverse:

[Yuri D.]

Here is mine for comparison. It is confirmed to be a good one:

<img src=http://www.bender-publishing.com/display/bsw1.jpg>
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<img src=http://www.bender-publishing.com/display/bsw2.jpg>

[ERIC S.]

How About This One?

Hi Guys,
Today I was surfing Prosper and Phillippes' website over at Majorplm.com and came across this "BSW' Pilots Badge.http://www.majorplm.com/collections/...-flug.BSW.html
I wrote to Prosper and told him my ill feelings towards this one. With his permission I have linked to it's address above. The three things that I saw immediately that threw up the proverbial "red flag" were:
#1 - That now famous "dip" in the wreath above the bottom bars
#2 - The eagles inner talons should be wavy (~~) and nearly touching one another.
#3 - The third feather down on the left wing should be much shorter for this particular maker
We were in agreeance to post it on this thread to hear other forum members feelings towards this badge.
ERIC

[Prosper Keating]

I must say that I was very interested in Eric's kind warning. The badge actually belongs to a good friend of mine. I am more than happy for it to be discussed here.

Prosper Keating

[IVAN]

mine

Hi to all,

here another to compare:

[IVAN]

reverse

[IVAN]

As we can see, mine is identical of Yuri's, Rich's and Stogieman's badge.

Others is clear they come from another die.

The J Temple's badge has the same dies characteristics of Lorenzo's even if the hand that finished these 2 badges are differents (every pilot badges are finished by hands)

I believe all badges in this thread are orginals and is not a problem if there are more dies of one maker, BSW has done a lot of pilot badge. All show a real age worn.

just only my opinion

Ivan

[Rich G]

The BSW badge belonging to Prospers friend is like no other BSW pilot badge that I have ever seen.

I'm not an expert by any means and I've seen maybe only 6 BSW pilot badges that I believed to be original and this one does not come close.

So unless BSW changed their tooling and pilot badge design, or whether they changed their production and completed outsourced to sub-contractors, I don't know, but that badge would not be for my collection. Even if the badge had bulletproof provenance, I still wouldn't have it. I'm sticking to known standard examples...saves a lot of hassle later.


Regards

Rich

[François SAEZ]

some of mines, for .......... what you want

1a

[François SAEZ]

1b

[François SAEZ]

1c

[François SAEZ]

1d

[François SAEZ]

2a