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Originally Posted by fougasse1940
It looks very yellowish, perhaps the plating has been polished off?
Rgds, Thomas.
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Thomas,
yes one is more yellow, the other more silver in colour but otherwise identical even down to the silver coloured lugs on the reverse and both from the same die.
Nickle plating is yellowish, I have a mate who has been a metal plater since the late 1970's and nickle plating is always is a more yellow colour than we seem to expect from these badges, which is why I wondered if perhaps the other was silver plated. Maybe we are wrong to call these nickle plated, when the colour is not correct for nickle, though perhaps there is something I am not getting.
The more yellow badge is in very good condition with no signs of the plating having worn or been rubbed off, though I know these early fretted plated badges are prone to losing their plating so perhaps you are correct and that is what has happened.