Rosenberg

You guys do an outstanding team-work that enables us illiterate in regard to cyrillic to participate in your fascination for this kind of militaria. Thanks for that!

Thanks gentlemen

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I just love those GWL pieces I must admit

Thanks for the exact name Mr. David

Here is another addition to my bird?s cage

MM

A pleasure Mr.David here we go......it is a type A with a been there look to it

...while I am here ...next to new additions...

one more

Thanks Butch and wish you well on your quest to catch one. I forgot about the wing-tips,but finally here are some close-ups

JTW,I am sorry for having used that name.What I meant was the laquer you often find on tombac GWL badges that saves their finish so extremly well. Zaponal is the patentname IMO. I have not seen a zinc GWL with that laquer as far as I remember-made me wonder if it is the zinc that makes the use of it impossible.

Regards

While enjoying both of the examples I was wondering why GWL did not use any Zaponal on zincers,is this not working due to material restrictions?

I find this stuff more and more interesting.Thanks for showing!

Cool document and well preserved badge! Congrats

Here is a shot of one in wear

Thanks for this detailed explaination!!! I just saw the date and it supports your timeline!

Don,

I like that idea! It is tiresome to look through it when you search a certain tinnie,the way it is now takes away some of the potential this sort of database has IMO.

Regards

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some shots of the claws

the reverse

Here is my latest addition-a nice airgunner.Came cased,but unfortunately only in a Fliegersch?tze case.To my understanding these badges by Juncker were bolt-removed.Anyone with a similar piece to establish whether it was factory or field removed?

Now could these similar looking "cuts" have been made in the same workshop? Could it be like they tried to let the eagle with its rock stand-out from the wreath by this process.Since both are of the same material the application of an identical process could be possible,couldn?t it?

Interesting pictures are shown here! I was looking at one of these just like Stan has the other day. After looking at the pics here for a while I noticed something that made me wonder. When looking at all the pics shown here,even while looking differently from the obverse the badge shown by Eric and the one Skip shows share something in their reverse picture.I tried to encircle that on this pic here

I cannot comment on Speichern,never heard that before other than in the meaning of saving.

Spichern is a village with its name deriving from surrounding hills the Spicherer H?hen.I should add that Spicheren sounds like a rather old-fashioned way of spelling.Both seems correct to me.

Yes,thanks for showing! Interesting early pin,indeed