Mongolia Badge of Honorary Checkist

[reichsrommel]

Hi, Gentlemen

I have found a Badge of Honorary Checkist these days. Is it authentic?

Here are the pictures.

Tang Si

[reichsrommel]

reverse

[reichsrommel]

mark

[Ed_Haynes]

Heven't we seen this one before? I think so. And I think I said then that it looks pretty crude to me, either poorly made (whether authentic or fake) or it has simply had a very hard life. Additionally, it seems to have no number. Personally, I'd give this one a pass, awaiting a more normal specimen in which you'd have more confidence.

[reichsrommel]

Thanks Ed

Does every such badge has the number?

Tang Si

[Ed_Haynes]

Thanks Ed

Does every such badge has the number?

Tang Si

I have never seen an authentic one unnumbered. Possibly an unawarded escapee? Possibly.

[reichsrommel]

Thanks! Understand!

Tang Si

[Ed_Haynes]

Let me clarify, and this is all detailed in the other, main, thread on these badges -- http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5058 -- into which I am tempted to merge these posts.

This type (D 03a and D 03b which are the same) is numbered, observed numbers run from 14 to 975,

D 04 may be a fantasy or unissued prototype.

D 05 (and Herfurt shows a variant otherwise unreported) is unnumbred and dates from the 1970s.

[usairforce]

I think this is a fake badge.