Strange Bird!

[bobgee]

Here's a strange bird that I've owned for many years. Weird looking, beautifully die-stuck screw-post bronze EGA. It measures 1 3/4' tall and 1 1/2" from wing tip to tip. It looks too ungainly to be a sweetheart pin but maybe that's what it was intended for. But why a screwpost? Anybody seen one of these before? All comments welcome.

Semper Fi.....Bob

[Bob Hudson]

Could it have been used on a older version of the NCO belt buckle? Those have screwback EGA's:

 

[bobgee]

Could it have been used on a older version of the NCO belt buckle? Those have screwback EGA's:

 

 

Good point. I hadn't thought of that.

Thanks....Bob

[GLM]

Bob,

 

I'm fairly certain these were strictly "sweetheart" emblems from the WWII period. It looks like someone added the screw post to yours sometime during WWII or later? The steel roller is what's found on Econo Plastic and Econo-Lead Army EM visor emblems and Econo-Lead Marine emblems of that period. At one time, I also had an identical emblem that was gold washed with silver highlights over a sterling base emblem with pin back that I either sold or traded off.

 

Here is an identical piece, without the added screw post.

 

s/f, Gary

[bobgee]

Bob,

 

I'm fairly certain these were strictly "sweetheart" emblems from the WWII period. It looks like someone added the screw post to yours sometime during WWII or later? The steel roller is what's found on Econo Plastic and Econo-Lead Army EM visor emblems and Econo-Lead Marine emblems of that period. At one time, I also had an identical emblem that was gold washed with silver highlights over a sterling base emblem with pin back that I either sold or traded off.

 

Here is an identical piece, without the added screw post.

 

s/f, Gary

 

Thanks Gary

Seeing yours without any pin or other means to attach suggests that these were struck and intended to be affixed to something else, non-reg of course but weren't. Maybe someone has one finished and commercially attached to something.

S/F.........Bob

[mp44]

Picked this up today. Can any of you all help me date it? Thanks.

[doyler]

Looks like a sweetheart piece.Maybe pre WW2

[Bob Hudson]

It's hard to tell with those photos: I've cleaned them up a bit, but I can't tell if they globe flat or domed.

 

[teufelhunde.ret]

You pin is one many "sweetheart" emblems made over the past century. Here is a pinned thread w/ similar example, at this link: http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/ind...?showtopic=7672