Imperial U-boat badges.

[thebig]

Hello Gentleman,
here an interesting article about German imperial U-boat badges.
https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%...19e4zer39y7kov
Best,
Oleg.

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[thebig]

Actually it’s an incomplete pre-version with some orthographic errors here.

Best,
Oleg.

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www.kriegsmarinedolch.de

[pauke]

Thanks for posting the interesting Schott article.

[BubbaZ]

Very interesting reading, thanks for posting

[Don D.]

So is the author implying that only Schott badges are real? Or was Schott the only maker pre end of war?

[BubbaZ]

The author also states that Schott was the maker of 'Schott' marked imperial u-boat badges:
"Not only because he had a huge workshop producing many of his artistic work for the public market over decades,"

Well, I doubt the workshop was 'huge' but even so making one off brass skulptures from time to time is completely different story than producing thousands of badges in a few years. Schott could possibly subcontract the production of these badges to proffesional medal maker but we have no information about it so far.

"there is also a direct hint to that conclusion on the badge itself:
The "f.e.c." mark is the abbreviation of fecit, the past tense of the Latin facere, to do. The expression,usually abbreviated to fe. or fec., is often found in older works of art and, in conjunction with asignature, indicates that the signatory has painted, engraved or carved the object. Until the beginning of the 20th century, copper-engravers marked their printing plates in this form."

We know that fec. abbreviation was used on badges to indicate the designer not actual maker of the badge.

[collecting]

... sure, Schott as the sole wartime maker due to his personal link to the Kaiser.

Invenit and Fecit : Latin for "[He] invented it and made it"

Best;
collecting

[Don D.]

Surely there would be some documentation to back up this claim.