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Bill
I saw the bogus conductor’s cap on eBay too. They’ve listed it twice as no ones bid on it (which is good to see). I did send the seller an email advising this was a fake and they should look at the completed auctions to see an original. We’ll see if they remove the listing. The seller changed the title and lowered the price to $50 after I contacted him.
On your last photo of the conductor’s badge I always thought these simple metal badged were made for freight service. I have two photos of trainmen wearing their everyday caps or hats with this type of badge attached.
I’d like to start another topic on ‘real’ cap badges and we keep the fakes in a seperate topic for future searches or we could just re title this one “Cap badges – Originals and Fakes”. I have a few I’ll be glad to add to this next week just let me know what you prefer.
