U-Boat Badge

[Gary B]

Hi,

Just posting what I believe is a 30s type badge.

Gary B

[Gary B]

Obvs

[Gary B]

Rvs

[Don D.]

An interesting badge for sure Gary. Assuming the "G" is for Godet, it differs slightly from the EK1 mark. I'd start by comparing the reverse hardware with known Godet products.

[Brian S]

Maybe not the same G, but the hardware setup looks the same.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1870-Iron-Cross-...#ht_550wt_1165

[saschaw]

My gut doesn't like it either.

[Mike Kenny]

Here's one I used to own. I never got comfortable with it and traded it back to the dealer a few years ago.

Regards
Mike

[Mike Kenny]

Reverse...

[Don D.]

What didn't you like about it?

[Mike Kenny]

What didn't you like about it?

Hard to say. Gut feeling mainly. The badge was imo not die struck, not in itself a bad sign as neither are the "Schott" badges. Lots of heavy hand filing from memory. The reverse appeared very "smooth" with slightly rounded edges - the latter again pointing to casting. It was the hinge, pin, marking and finish which were the main things that never made me comfortable though. It was sold as a Godet, but the small G does match the "G"s found on EKs, so that always rankled anyway. I could never actually tell if it had finish on it - if it did, it was plated (which would be unusual). It certainly was not fire-gilt, which I'd almost have expected from a pre-WW2 gilt item like this (not to say everything gilded pre-WW2 should have been fire-gilded of course).

Regards
Mike