Most PAB are made of zinc and have little to no finish left on them, this one has a nice bronze finish. It is not 100% of the new type of finish but it has a patina to it, I guess from age, the finishes often evaporate. So this one is not that milk chocolate color but is there and better then most ...Read and See More
Normally these badges have little to no finish, because the finish is so good on this one I could not walk by. The pin is absent but.....what can you do? From the obverse side it looks wonderful and you can probably find a pin if you keep looking. ...Read and See More
This is a pretty nice badge with one fault but in the ocean of fakes these days I don't care. The silver finish is nice as is the grayish finished tank with excellent detail. When I see badges like this my suspicion is it was worn in a tank or armored vehicle. I say that because there is a slight ...Read and See More
I kept this badge for many years on the back shelf because I liked it. OK, maybe it isn't the greatest conditioned badge, not bad either! What I like about it, it is still nice but the catch and pin are all bent. I think how it was bent getting in and out of those cramped quarters in a tank or ar ...Read and See More
This is a pretty nice example of a rare badge, the finish on the obverse side is really good, maybe 93 or 94%. The finish on the reverse is also pretty good, maybe 90% or so. ...Read and See More
This is an excellent example of a Bronze PAB, this one has 85% or more of the bronze finish still intact which is very hard to find. Most of these are made of zinc and the finish does not hold up well. Finding ones like this is very difficult! ...Read and See More
I just bought this group on 12/23/16 from an 89 year old veteran or should I say occupation trooper. He arrived in Germany in 1946 and assigned to the 1st division. I was mainly interested in talking to him about what the occupation was like and with his wife there we did not get into the interestin ...Read and See More
