10-05-2008, 04:04 PM
These two good wartime BM's were bought from the same guy two weeks apart. What struck me on these was that both had been repaired in exactly the same way (and this guy doesn't do repairs as far as I know). Both had the "ears" of later medals literally glued on them. Those ears had even been slightly rounded so they fit more snugly. You can see a bit of the brass under the plating of one of the ears, and the LM mint mark on both of them. One of them had previously had a hole through it, but that was filled as part of the repair.
I wonder if one veteran owned them both, and did the same repair on both. It's not a normal repair (at least in my experience), so the coincidence of the same local bazaar dealer selling both tells me that they were either from the same man or from the same repair dude.
I wonder if one veteran owned them both, and did the same repair on both. It's not a normal repair (at least in my experience), so the coincidence of the same local bazaar dealer selling both tells me that they were either from the same man or from the same repair dude.
