706 badges

I was wondering what was the true color of the 706 model
badge? My 706 has one gold and one silver badge. Some one
once told me that they all came from the factory with the gold
badges and the silver ones were just gold ones that are faded.
I could be wrong but I find that to belive since my silver one is
still silver on the side that does not see any light. And that all
the aftermarket ones I see are silver. If they came gold why
wouldn't the aftermarket company's sell gold ones not silver
ones.

I also heard they all came from the factory with a thin gold plating that invariably peeled or faded to silver. Can't explain your situation though...

I just checked my '7' this afternoon.It was silver.I saw no evidence of gold.

I just looked at Steiner tractor parts and they have a gold 1206 badge but there 706/806 gas and diesel badges are silver. I wonder what my gold 706 badge represents then?

ALL 04/06 series (404, 2404, 504, 2504, 606, 2606 early 656, 706, 2706, 806, 2806 and 1206, 21206 emblems were gold from the vendor. The "gold" was an anodized protective coating applied to the bare aluminum emblem before painting of the white or black. This anodized coating faded to the bare aluminum base plate at varying timelines due the poor manufacturing process standards and 1960"s quality control at the vendor that IH used. The 1206 emblems have a thicker coating of anodizing likely achieved to length of the submersion. The 1206"s were supposed to stay "gold". IH did not care if the other series emblems faded. Look on the back of your silver 706 emblem, it will be anodized gold. The new aftermarket (asain sourced) "silver" emblems are silver because the approval process for those items did not go through proper channels that knew what the originals were from the IH blue prints. You will also notice they are not as defined in any of the raised areas and angles as the originals. The new gold 1206"s are made from the same vendor now that did the originals, using the exact same dies and IH specs from 1966. Your "gold" 706 emblem is either a newer one purchased from NOS dealer stock at some point well after the tractor came out or was one of those "Friday afternoon" emblems that stayed in the solution all weekend.

I was looking on eBay and seen this old litature on a 504 and the badge is clearly silver. I'm no expert but I would say that tractor in the picture is as new as they come with little time in the weather and sun. With that said if they came gold that was a major flaw with the plating.

The pictures you see in the literature are often pre-production models, prototypes, or even other tractors airbrushed or actually decorated to look like the model they're advertising.

Not that long ago either on here or the red power forum there was a discussion about some piece of IH literature showing a 1256. After careful analysis, it was determined that the "1256" pictured was actually a 1206 that had the white parts painted red, and 1256 emblems added to make it look like a 1256.