White Edging on Conscripts Qualification Badges

vikingraider1 · 06-09-2003, 09:56 PM

I have seen the below conscripts qualification badge before with the white edging and also have on in my collection and was wondering what the significance of them were. Were they decorated by the conscripts or were they issued this way?? Any ideas

Kim · 06-13-2003, 03:37 PM

I have never seen any one look like that. Regular issue doesn't come with white enamel as you say. Perhaps this could be a "going-home-after-service" thing? Is it real enamel?

/Kim

vikingraider1 · 06-13-2003, 05:30 PM

That is a theory that I thought of but that sort of thing didn't happen until the 1970s. These were present on 1960s uniforms.

otlichnik · 06-16-2003, 02:36 AM

I too have seen this but don't know what the significance is.

Shawn

Nota Bene · 06-17-2003, 05:56 PM

Gentlemen,

I've looked in all my badges books, and couldn't find any explanation either, other than the usual "variations exist".

Alexei

06-13-2003, 03:37 PM	#2
Kim Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 227	I have never seen any one look like that. Regular issue doesn't come with white enamel as you say. Perhaps this could be a "going-home-after-service" thing? Is it real enamel? /Kim __________________ medaljblogg.wordpress.com Blog in Swedish

06-13-2003, 05:30 PM	#3
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	That is a theory that I thought of but that sort of thing didn't happen until the 1970s. These were present on 1960s uniforms. __________________ "We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead... and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." King George V, Flanders, 1922

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