"Unmarked Maker" Pilot Badge - Something Interesting

[ERIC S.]

Hello All,
I just received in this Pilots Badge in from Detlev. I didn't notice this when ordering, but it's as plain as day now that it's in hand. I direct your attention to the pin in particular - see something there that we sometimes see on Gebruber Wegerhoff Badges? Just a little additional tidbit for those of you like myself who believe these were GWL badges. I found this very interesting because this is the first time I've seen a badge from the "Unknown Maker" with barber polling on the pin. Does anyone else have this anomoly on their badges by the "Unknown Maker"?? Just curious.
Regards,
ERIC

[ERIC S.]

The pin

Reverse

[StevenD]

Why the pin of course with those diagonal lines going up and down the entire pin.

[J Temple-West]

Hi Eric,

Here's mine, from the same series (with the die mark to the the reverse of the wreath)... No rolling marks. The differences are probably due to a new stock of wire being obtained and used at sometime during the production of this particular series.

[J Temple-West]

Reverse..

[Yuri D.]

I'll show something else. The following Pilot's Badge was for sale some time ago, with a faint vestage of a maker's mark. I think this is the closest we have come to finding out who the maker of these badges was:

[Yuri D.]

Reverse

[Yuri D.]

Faint trace of a maker's stamp:

[Yuri D.]

Running this maker's stamp through a few Photoshop filters and blurs, you get something that looks like a "1" over a "2":

[Rich G]

Maybe it was the price rubber stamped on?

[Yuri D.]

Maybe it was the price rubber stamped on?

Hard to tell. This is the only Pilot's Badge that I've seen this stamp on. A true anomaly.

Yuri

[ERIC S.]

Thanks guys for the posts. No more of these style Pilot Badges with barber polling on the pin?? I thought for sure at least one other member here would / could have this anomoly on their example, be it a zinc or buntmetall example.
ERIC