These are on the back of an airborne jump badge. Has anyone seen this or something similar?

 

 

Identified. Robbins

 

Now the follow up question, why/when was this hallmark used? It is on a WW2 jump badge.

There really isn't a great explanation for why an older hallmark sometimes shows up on later era pieces.

 

Sometimes, firms reserved their older hallmarks for prestige lines.

 

Other times, the finishing jeweler may have accidentally grabbed the wrong stamp from a bin of hallmark stamps on the bench

 

Some jewelry companies were very strict about which hallmarks could be used.  Others practically desultory.  The three-cartouche (European like) Robbins hallmark is normally associated with the WW1 and before era.  Robbins seems to have retained this older hallmark and used it in later eras for higher end items (it occasionally shows up on 14k badges from the WW2 period).

 

Warm regards!

 

Chris

I have a Naval Aviator Wing Badge by Robbins, with the cartouche style back mark that is engraved to the Aviator. It is dated 1937.

Clearly, Robbins used the cartouche back mark well after WWI.

By, the way, that back mark is the only one listed for Robbins in my 1931 Keystone Index catalog.

John

This Wing went for $290.70 on eBay. Any chance the buyer is a member here? If so, please contact me.

 

Regards,

John

 

Wow. Too rich for my blood. I would have only bid up to $150ish if I remembered the auction.