Airplane Badge/Fob(SOLVED)

curbdiggercarl57 · Jun 18, 2009

Posted this on "Today's Finds", should have posted here first. I know I have seen this scene before, but where? Looks to be Pre-WW1, possibly a French monoplane. About 1 and a 1/2" tall, stamped copper, thin, no markings on back.

Ohio Jerry · Jun 18, 2009

Re: Airplane Badge/Fob

My guess is that it's something to do with Bleriot's first flight over the English channel in July of 1909 .......very cool

trikikiwi · Jun 19, 2009

Re: Airplane Badge/Fob

Good call Jerry :icon_thumright:

Google image shows this up as a Bleriot Fob - Very cool too :thumbsup:

from http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/transportation/aviation.htm
but I have scanned that page 3 times and can't pinpoint it :icon_scratch:

Mike

curbdiggercarl57 · Jun 19, 2009

Re: Airplane Badge/Fob

trikikiwi said:
Good call Jerry

Google image shows this up as a Bleriot Fob - Very cool too

from http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/transportation/aviation.htm
but I have scanned that page 3 times and can't pinpoint it

Mike

I spent over an hour trying to research it on Google, I knew it had to be there. Thank you so much, it was driving me crazy.
Carl

trikikiwi · Jun 19, 2009

Re: Airplane Badge/Fob

I think it's an awesome find Carl :notworthy:

Pity I can't spot the reference on that link :icon_scratch:

Cheers, Mike

Likely Guy · Jun 19, 2009

Re: Airplane Badge/Fob

curbdiggercarl57 said:
trikikiwi said:

Good call Jerry

Google image shows this up as a Bleriot Fob - Very cool too

from http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/transportation/aviation.htm
but I have scanned that page 3 times and can't pinpoint it

Mike

Click to expand...

I spent over an hour trying to research it on Google, I knew it had to be there. Thank you so much, it was driving me crazy.
Carl

No comment Carl. :wink:

Great ID, Jerry. :icon_thumright:

And great followup with the pic Mike.

I don't want to go to 'Today's Finds' Carl. Where'd you get it?

Not that I'm lazy, but if I see another, "NICE FIND. WTG!" *Tasmanian Devil with an MD* I'm going to jump in the river.

Woodland Detectors · Jun 19, 2009

Re: Airplane Badge/Fob

Nice find~ WTG~~

creskol · Jun 19, 2009

Re: Airplane Badge/Fob

That is a very cool relic .. Congrats on the find!

Nice research and great ID, too! :icon_thumleft:

curbdiggercarl57 · Jun 19, 2009

Re: Airplane Badge/Fob

Likely Guy said:
curbdiggercarl57 said:

trikikiwi said:

Good call Jerry

Google image shows this up as a Bleriot Fob - Very cool too

from http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/transportation/aviation.htm
but I have scanned that page 3 times and can't pinpoint it

Mike

Click to expand...

I spent over an hour trying to research it on Google, I knew it had to be there. Thank you so much, it was driving me crazy.
Carl

Click to expand...

No comment Carl. Great ID, Jerry. And great followup with the pic Mike.

I don't want to go to 'Today's Finds' Carl. Where'd you get it?

Not that I'm lazy, but if I see another, "NICE FIND. WTG!" *Tasmanian Devil with an MD* I'm going to jump in the river.

I found it at a spot that a buddy turned me on to a year or so ago. The finds are getting few and far between there, but the ground is flat, soil soft, and you don't have to constantly look around in fear for strange people. I hunted for little over an hour, finding nothing decent. I walked down to the creek to visit a tree, (the site's out in the middle of nowhere), and while I was crawling out of the weeds, I saw it on the ground. It was pretty encrusted, almost everything found there is. You can see where I bent it slightly, happened during cleaning.
Carl

Bigcypresshunter · Jul 1, 2009

I just noticed this great ID!

CurbdiggerCarl,

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