View Single Post
  #10  
Old 26-07-21, 12:33 AM
cbuehler's Avatar
cbuehler cbuehler is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 3,420
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan O View Post
The bronzed cast design and lugs is more akin to an officers' badge than an ORs. It appears to have had the bronze to the front polished off. The footed lugs are not nice but I would not discard it just yet.
Indeed, those footed lugs are scary, but the rest of the badge says polished OSD to me as well, and not like any fake that am aware of.
One has to be careful with such lugs as some original badges did have lugs that are very similar to the infamous footed fakes.
My 20H OSD collar has three lugs as well, as I think the vast majority did.

CB
__________________
"We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more." Sam. Johnson
Reply With Quote