08-30-2002, 10:11 AM
I am not sure that these are fakes per se.
The quality matches that of the other wings - pilots, navigators, flight engineers, space troops, etc.
I have never seen genuine ones with issue book or in a museum but I would be surprised if they were of a very different quality.
I think this is a case of a genuine badge of which several dozen or even hundred examples were made for official use and thousands and thousands made for sale to collectors.
This same thing seem to be true of the white higher school "academy" badges. They are really being made by the same factory but are unissued ones pumped out for sale.
Either way, not worth much money.
Shawn
The quality matches that of the other wings - pilots, navigators, flight engineers, space troops, etc.
I have never seen genuine ones with issue book or in a museum but I would be surprised if they were of a very different quality.
I think this is a case of a genuine badge of which several dozen or even hundred examples were made for official use and thousands and thousands made for sale to collectors.
This same thing seem to be true of the white higher school "academy" badges. They are really being made by the same factory but are unissued ones pumped out for sale.
Either way, not worth much money.
Shawn
