Silver War Badges: For Services Rendered

[High Wood]

Does any one know if the Great War Silver War Badges are now being faked? The original ones were made of non hall marked silver and were always issued with an impressed number.

I bought one this morning at a very reasonable price thinking that the original number had been erased. On getting home and looking at it carefully what I thought to be signs of erasure actually appear slightly proud of the back and may be evidence that the badge is a cast copy from an original badge.

What do readers think?

[hertsmil]

Hi there are many seller of fake silver wounded badges on ebay some are cast copies some are just cheap and nasty here is a link to one of them.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WW1-FOR-KI...item51bd2fa585
hope this help Andy

[wright241]

Just another way for fraudsters making money in "profit at any price" mentality. They do it with everything else and nothing ever happens to them, so why not....
David

[High Wood]

Bugger, that is bad news. It is the first wrong one that I have seen and aggravated by the fact that I got up very early this morning and travelled in the dark to a car boot sale about 15 miles from home. Nothing else on offer.

[John L]

Originally Posted by hertsmil

Hi there are many seller of fake silver wounded badges on ebay some are cast copies some are just cheap and nasty here is a link to one of them.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WW1-FOR-KI...item51bd2fa585
hope this help Andy

Down at the bottom it says copy