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Originally Posted by Luke H
Not my thing but I steer clear of AA ‘die stamped’ badges and ones with unmarked sliders. I feel this is a good rule of thumb. All the above spurious badges have both traits.
Cheers,
Luke
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Hi Luke,
No, not really and you may miss out on absolute bargains if you follow that rule.
All genuine AA badges are 'die stamped' as per their manufacturing process of
cold die forging. These shown here are also manufactured as per the genuine item - they were made by Gaunt via the same methodology.
Die stamping (proper) was the process used in the pre A/A era.
Also, some rare early and a few late badges were not maker marked so you can't use this as a measure.
The trick is to know the era that a particular slider was manufactured. Is a late design slider attached to an early era badge?
Regards,
Chris