Found a pair of strange cufflinks this week at an estate sale. I am unfamiliar with they symbol on them. They are sterling. Any help in identifying the organization would be greatly appreciated.
What Organization is this? Is it fraternal? Unknown symbol.
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The art on it reminds me of bomb group squadron insignias, but that's probably a stretch.
Is that a guillotine at the bottom?
Do you know who made them? As it might possibly help in finding a match or at least the type of items that the company was known to make.
The art on it reminds me of bomb group squadron insignias, but that's probably a stretch.
Is that a guillotine at the bottom?
Do you know who made them? As it might possibly help in finding a match or at least the type of items that the company was known to make.
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It looks like it was something to do with a flying group.
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Was the person from the estate sale previously in the construction industry?
Perhaps structural steel?
Looks like a crane lifting a section of steel to me.
Perhaps structural steel?
Looks like a crane lifting a section of steel to me.
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At first with the guillotine attached to scale arm, then the crosses; I immediately thought French Resistance. But then I notice the crosses didn't have the second horizontal cross on it. now I am stumped
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At first with the guillotine attached to scale arm, then the crosses; I immediately thought French Resistance. But then I notice the crosses didn't have the second horizontal cross on it. now I am stumped
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This may be a bit of a stretch, but humor me and use a little imagination.
These may be related to Kingman Army Airfield.
Their official mascot (approved by Warner Bros.) was Bugs Bunny. The boxes below the bunny may be hangers and barracks.
The two interesecting line represent the runways and the little crosses represent aircraft parked in the field.
To me, there is more than a little irony that the crosses mark the "final resting place" for these planes.
Following the end of WWII, thousands of war surplus aircraft were flown to Kingman where they were systematically
destroyed by a huge hunk of steel suspended from a crane hook - a guillotine of sorts. That's what they called it back then, anyway.
They were then melted down and the aluminium was recycled.
Perhaps these cufflinks belonged to a worker at Kingman.
If so, it would date them to the late 1940's.
These may be related to Kingman Army Airfield.
Their official mascot (approved by Warner Bros.) was Bugs Bunny. The boxes below the bunny may be hangers and barracks.
The two interesecting line represent the runways and the little crosses represent aircraft parked in the field.
To me, there is more than a little irony that the crosses mark the "final resting place" for these planes.
Following the end of WWII, thousands of war surplus aircraft were flown to Kingman where they were systematically
destroyed by a huge hunk of steel suspended from a crane hook - a guillotine of sorts. That's what they called it back then, anyway.
They were then melted down and the aluminium was recycled.
Perhaps these cufflinks belonged to a worker at Kingman.
If so, it would date them to the late 1940's.
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