3 AA Div
I won't disagree with anyone, but I thought the WW2 printing process was such that the ink was placed on a matrix made of wood, lead or rubber upon which was placed the cloth and extreme pressure exerted, resulting in the design 'bleeding' through to the reverse. This was called a typographic method
It was only post-war that technology allowed the printing that didn't bleed through, using a serigraphy method which used a thick layer of ink. Although this technology was known from the 1930's it wasn't sufficiently developed for commercial printing.
This information came from The Formation Sign No 211, published in September 2003 so there may have been more discovered since then that makes the information obsolete.
The example used in FS 211 is the fake printed 56 Indep Inf Bde FS.
Prior to reading this thread I would have stayed well clear of this AA badge: in fact, I still will.
Stephen
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