I should also have mentioned for those unfamiliar with his business that well over 90% of the repros in the Martin Marsh Militaria catalogues are from new fake dies made in the 1970s or after.
Out of the thousand or so different badges for sale very few indeed, just a handful, were from original dies which were mostly FN but also a couple Woodward and Gaunt examples.
So mathematically if a badge is from a die appearing in his catalogue it’s the kiss of death viz authenticity.
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