ARP Badges
 

Ebay item : 362883064250
This ARP badge appears one of several sharing similar features which I am wondering about.
The stippled backs, slightly dished enamel and the pins all seem like those you see on later badges.
Where these type of badges ever produced genuinely later on for collectors etc to fill gaps? Am I just being over cautious and they are good ones?
There have been a few over the past weeks on Ebay.

The seller Vongold is well known for selling a lot of fake items.

Check out his ebay name on here,

regards

Certainly a seller to avoid, but, plenty of good and inexpensive ARP badges to be had elsewhere.

Hi Simon and Frank
They wouldnt be my area for collecting but I didn't like the stippled back or that vibrant blue 'finish' .
Gary

Mine neither, but, so diverse quite nice things really.

Although I'm a bit confused by the verdegris on this badge and several others he is selling (perhaps it is just the way the badges have been stored), I'm 99.9% sure it's real, but the seller is so well known for selling dodgy items that he's shot himself in the foot by making you question genuine items when he sells them. Rather like MilitarytraderUK (and the other seller names he uses on ebay), even if I see something I'd be interested in, I refuse to buy off them on principle.

A principle that does you credit, in my opinion, it is a shame more people do not profit from the example, these idiots would not be in business.

I think that the stippled back is very unusual for a 1940s badge, and that has been a feature on several that the seller has had over the past couple of weeks. As a handler of antique jewellery for a number of years with a passing interest in military, its not something I would expect to see, but new variants can always crop up and change that opinion and I have by no means seen everything out there