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Originally Posted by Luke Halls
Hi Dave,
Welcome to the forum, as Alan says the badge came in a blackened brass variety so is best left as is. I believe yours is a restrike I'm afraid, my uncle has a J.R.Gaunt marked brass one which is certainly a restrike and yours appears to come from the same die, if you look at the '0' of '0f' (in the 'county of London' title) its very oval and noticeably askew to the left the further up the 'o' goes. Sorry.
Cheers,
Luke
incidentally if you are looking for a genuine one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ORIGINAL-19TH-...ayphotohosting |
Hello Luke,
How are you ? well I hope.
I was going to ask you to put me out of my misery, re my 19th London, bought as a 100% original from the states, too long ago to do anything about it !!!
I will not buy from the suggested link but I do have to ask why his descriptions are so tardy, it doesn't look like it's blackened brass to me !!
All the best,
Dave.
PS, I bought this one after asking the seller for a photo of the back, I thought it looked OK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!oops.