04-30-2005, 04:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-30-2005, 04:42 PM by Chuck In Oregon.)
I don't think it's a fantasy piece. At least, it's not a fantasy style. I don't know about the details of your piece, but at least I have seen the style before.
I believe this is an Armed Forces Championship badge for placing in an all-military competition. You can see the style in the 1990 Domank book on military badges, illustrations 103-105. It appears as if the colors are red-1st place, blue-second, green-third.
I have attached an image of one of my badges. The date in the small rhomb is 1966. It is, obviously, a green badge but says at the bottom "II Mecto", or second place. That seems to contradict what the book says it should be, a third place badge.
I'm going to guess that yours is an All-Army rather than an All-Military competition badge. Nice first place badge.
Just my two cents.
Chuck
I believe this is an Armed Forces Championship badge for placing in an all-military competition. You can see the style in the 1990 Domank book on military badges, illustrations 103-105. It appears as if the colors are red-1st place, blue-second, green-third.
I have attached an image of one of my badges. The date in the small rhomb is 1966. It is, obviously, a green badge but says at the bottom "II Mecto", or second place. That seems to contradict what the book says it should be, a third place badge.
I'm going to guess that yours is an All-Army rather than an All-Military competition badge. Nice first place badge.
Just my two cents.
Chuck
