This shot was taken with the camera flash. Another thing worth noting is the badge scroll. The left-most scroll is fastened to the badge with prongs, and the letters seem screened/printed with a sturdy enamel paint, with sharp, clean edges.
The 2 on the right are glued onto the badge, and the letters are recessed and filled with enamel paint. On some pieces, such paint has completely disappeared. Recessed lettering may not be significant, since I have seen otherwise high-quality pieces with this type of scroll (one even done in a script-like lettering), but they have been of the prong-type attachments.
The glued-on scrolls might be custom attachments added on when such individual scrolls were abolished and the academies moved to the universal generic badge (as was pointed out in another, earlier thread), but the question remains, why attach such scrolls to a sub-standard badge rather than a readily-available, high-quality one? This seems to indicate that the entire badge was a built-from-scratch job ... any thoughts?
The 2 on the right are glued onto the badge, and the letters are recessed and filled with enamel paint. On some pieces, such paint has completely disappeared. Recessed lettering may not be significant, since I have seen otherwise high-quality pieces with this type of scroll (one even done in a script-like lettering), but they have been of the prong-type attachments.
The glued-on scrolls might be custom attachments added on when such individual scrolls were abolished and the academies moved to the universal generic badge (as was pointed out in another, earlier thread), but the question remains, why attach such scrolls to a sub-standard badge rather than a readily-available, high-quality one? This seems to indicate that the entire badge was a built-from-scratch job ... any thoughts?
