Assmann unmarked RO/AG?

[colin davie]

Yet another unmarked badge from my collection, though I believe this one made by Assmann, any other opinions would be welcome.
Cheers
Colin

[colin davie]

Reverse

[colin davie]

Angled shot

[colin davie]

Case text

[Frank Heukemes]

Wow, Colin, a SUPERB example and indeed Assmann!

[Philippe DB]

Hi Colin,


I can only agree with Frank, very nice indeed.

Here is his marked brother

KR
Philippe

[Philippe DB]

reverse

[J Temple-West]

Congratulations to both parties on owning these fine, early 2nd pattern examples..

[Frank Heukemes]

This gives me another backflash, thinking about what happened three years ago on this very forum. We discovered a Tombak Assmann marked RO/AG in one of Carsten Baldes´ updates. We discussed it here and nobody dared to order it, as we thought, it might be a very well made fake!
I lived in Munich back then, not so far away from Carsten´s shop in Ulm. I volunteered to drive there and take a look at this "unknown badge". I ended up buying it. Just goes to show what a big leap forward we have made since then!

[Frank Heukemes]

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[colin davie]

Thank you for your opinions guys, I notice your badge is'nt as cut out on the lightning bolts as my one Philippe, I don't have the Assmann marked piece in buntmetal, though the only other I have is in Aluminium and that has the whole cutout too, will do a search to see if I can find more, great badge though, I will need to find some more nice PABs to tempt these badges from you.
Cheers again
Colin

[colin davie]

What's the difference between 1st and 2nd pattern, thanks for the pics guys and info
Colin

[Frank Heukemes]

1st pattern has a very different wreath and eagle design, although I have only seen it in Alu so far. Does anybody have a 1st pattern Tombak example?

[Philippe DB]

Dear Frank,


Compare the file marks on both of our badges. Really amazing how close they are. I think we had the same enthousiastic professional "filer" working on both badges

Colin you had an other "filer" working on yours, he did a much more subtile job but then again, most likely he was fired because it took him to long to finish a badge

KR
Philippe

[J Temple-West]

1st pattern RO/AG.. In Alu'. Still hunting for an example in Tombak.
Interesting to note how close the Assmann and Juncker 1st pat birds, are.