9. Unterseebootsflottille tradition badge

[kfs]

tradition Badge from the 9th U-boat flotilla

[kfs]

one Badge for sell from the 9th Flottille

http://www.ebay.de/itm/WKII-Kriegsma...QAAOSwFqJWkq4C

[Norm F]

one Badge for sell from the 9th Flottille

http://www.ebay.de/itm/WKII-Kriegsma...QAAOSwFqJWkq4C

Good to have this thread on another tradition badge. Here are the images from that ebay sale.

[Norm F]

reverse

[Norm F]

And for reference, here's the common reproduction that's made by warhats.com for £11.99

[lucalocatelli]

The winner spent 560 euro for it.
i was the fourth

Luca

[pantherv]

Nice...I'm on the hunt for one of these.

[Terrence]

It was actually authentic?

[gingerbread]

Ebay



For sure, the one from ebay was authentic.

I have this one in my collect:



With a nice handmade sawfish for christmas 1943




Best regards
Ben

[lucalocatelli]

Yes it was authentic.

luca

[glaser]

posting a link to an ebay item of an auction not yet closed apparently raises the interest and the price ..., it is good to share the information, thx kfs, but bad if you are the one who want to buy it like Luca

[lucalocatelli]

posting a link to an ebay item of an auction not yet closed apparently raises the interest and the price ..., it is good to share the information, thx kfs, but bad if you are the one who want to buy it like Luca

Thanks Glaser, fully agree with you
When i saw kfs post i almost cried

Luca

[Norm F]

From Gordon Williamson's posting on GMIC in 2011:

"I recall the box full of original enamel Sawfish badges that were discovered in the stores of a badge maker in France some years back, perfect little pieces and of superior quality. They were donated as a gift to the U-Boot Archiv.

The little green enamel sawfish badges were, at the time, sold off by the Archive to raise funds, (they wouldn't do that with items donated by ex-U-Boat crew themselves but as they got a box load of these for free keeping a sample for the Archive collection and using the rest to raise funds was a sensible idea). They really should have charged much more for them even back then. I recall buying one for just £10 ! You couldn't even buy a fake one for that price now, let alone an original. I seem to remember though that you could only buy a single example."

From £10 back then to €560 on E-bay in 2016. Someone made a good investment.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Norm F]

Three of them can be seen on the upper right in Michel Legrand's collection.

[Terrence]

I need one of those for my collection. Maybe you guys can keep an eye out for me.