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**Joseph D'Errico** · 02-07-2003, 12:56 PM

Hello Frank,

Is this a trick queston??

Best Regards,
JD

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 01:12 PM

Haha, Joe, you are getting better at this!

No, not a trick question! A serious one. I know Osang is supposedly not one of the makers of P/O badges, BUT I have a badge here today with me and are currently photographing it. It seems to be very real. And I haven´t found a copy yet that looks vaguely the same.

Anybody has one before I offer my pics for a heated discussion?

Cheers, Frank

**Rich G** · 02-07-2003, 01:16 PM

Frank

It's a new one on me so looking forward to the pics.

Rich

ps Any verdict on the observer badge?

**Mark S.** · 02-07-2003, 02:52 PM

I had an Osang air gunner badge once that (obviously) turned out to be fake. I have yet to see another exactly like it.

**Yuri D.** · 02-07-2003, 05:21 PM

Frank,

Awaiting your pics most anxiously :-)

Yuri

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:28 PM

Ok, here are the pics, please be patient for a while and let me post all of them.
Reserve an open mind for this discussion, you will need it - and tell me what you see!

Some things and remarks upfront, so you do not have to go through all the same efforts I already did:

-the eagle only resembles a Juncker type 3 a bit, but is different.

-the rivets are to me of the same type as on my Osang para.

-the maker´s mark is very slightly different to the one on my Osang para and the one on my Osang Luft Ground Combat, but far from looking obviously repro.

-badge has green verdigris in some spots, something that doesn´t build up in a fortnight. badge looks "old", not made yesterday.

-badge has believable overall wear and fading to the gilding.

-hinge is very close to other Osangs (para, LW Ground Combat)

-catch is different because most other Osangs are zinkers. Does somebody maybe have a Buntmetall Osang Frontflugspange with that kind of catch? I know the zinker clasps have other catches.

Front shot:

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:31 PM

reverse

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:33 PM

mark

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:34 PM

hinge

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:36 PM

more hinge

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:38 PM

catch

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:39 PM

left rivet

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:40 PM

right rivet

**Frank Heukemes** · 02-07-2003, 07:42 PM

side shot from under the wing

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