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1st Tank Battalion badge question
Bought this 1st Tank Battalion
I know there’s quite some talk on these badges, by reading former posts about them. However, I still bought the badge after handling it… Badge and slider are rock hard and near impossible to bend (so passes the bend test), finish is really well done, doesn’t “feel” like a restrike or copy, and the slider does have a small but present crimp mark… Could I have a genuine beast here? ??? As it comes from a local collection, based near the border of Flanders and France… |
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Back of badge
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No you have a fake that comes from the Marsh catalogue.
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As Luke said, it is a well-known copy. The 1st Tank Bn collar badges had sliders added. The original badges only had lugs.
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More like this I fixed up a few years back.
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Just to help me understand. Is this an original collar that was changed to a slider? Or is it a newly stamped piece that was intended to have a slider by design? In the photo from the marsh catalogue (I have never seen this catalogue) I see a representation of a 1st Tank collar, Is there also a photo of the back of the badge in the Marsh catalogue?
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Also a word of caution. As you’ve discovered here the ‘bend test’ is a fallacy.
I’ve sadly seen many a good badge fail it with devastating consequences, please don’t do it. It is absolutely no guarantee of authenticity. |
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Alas…
Not exactly the answer one likes to hear, but it is what is is…. Won’t pass this thing to someone else, but it goes into the scrap metal (need to go to the scrap yard soon to get rid of mu exces metal after demolishing the old house and building a new one) Thanks for the help and advice |
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