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    Hi Jan Arne,

    You always find such interesting additions for your collection -- truly a master collector.

    What's the story behind the peculiar "bug-eye" of this Funcke & Brueninghaus eagle? I notice that this variant eagle head is quite different from the example in the GCA database and from Lorenzo Brown's posted example here.

    Nevertheless, the badge seems to match in every other way -- two different production dies perhaps?

    Best regards,

    ---Norm

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    Here's a comparison with my L/56.

    I doubt if it is a different die. The rarity of the L/56 badge suggests that they didn't make them in large volume.

    More likely I think, a misformed badge which, rather then being scrapped, had the "dot" punched into the head to make it look more like a eye and make the head more acceptable.

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