Question about m 1/52 zinc skull prong mounts

[john mack]

My 2 questions here are, ive not seen this type of prong mount in zinc before, ive only seen them on aluminum deschlers, do they also exist in cupal? And second is are these early deschler styes?

[john mack]

Aluminum

Same in aluminum

[bwanek1]

My 2 questions here are, ive not seen this type of prong mount in zinc before, ive only seen them on aluminum deschlers, do they also exist in cupal? And second is are these early deschler styes?

I have seen this style of zinc Deschler before, but it is quite rare.

My guess has always been that when Deschler stopped making the aluminum skulls, they simply started using the same dies to make skulls in zinc. However, I have never had one of this style of zinc skull to do a close side-by-side comparison between it and the aluminum ones to look for differences.

Brad

[john mack]

Skull

Thanks for brad, thats interesting to me,i am going to put the front of the skull up for comparison since it is not seen too often.i would like to see this style mounts in cupal.

[SSgentleman]

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this style of attachment in zinc is rare indeed. I haven't seen this in cupal version (i don't think there is). Deschler change the die, it is different from aluminium.

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[Sayle F]

zinc 52

seen better days

[Sayle F]

Zinc

Some silver finish is still visible

[john mack]

I am willing to bet there exists a version of this prong mount in cupal , is there a reason why there would not be? From aluminum right to zinc? One thing is obvious and that is that there are more aluminum versions of this prong mounting than there are zinc, also guys is this an early type prong mount ? Mid war or late?

[SScollector]

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