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EGA HELP STRANGE LOOKING EAGLE


tony75
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Hi

what are your thoughts on these 2 EGAs

the one looks like a manf error Im not familiar with these things at all

thank you for your time and help

Tony

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teufelhunde.ret

Your emblems are WW2 "issue type" for the Barracks Cover. The guilt emblem (dress blues) has been customized, by removing the screw post and adding a pin and catch, most likely for converting it to a "sweetheart" pin. It may also have lost its post, becoming serviceable, hence converting it.

 

The second (Service Greens) represent what are know as "hub and die error". Either or both of the hub or die (collars) came out of alignment (rotated) during the process of striking blank planchets (thus allowing an off-center strike), not seen very often, but they are out there.

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the first dress was converted to a sweetheart pin, probably after the post broke or was stripped. Common practice

 

The service one is definitely a production error, not valuable, but great conversation pieces. I grab them up myself, I find them interesting!

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