Meybauer FULL markings

[Rick Research]

I'm reposting this for Eric Stahlhut, who lost his original on an IHS changeover.

Here we have everything we could ask for in an obscure Imperial/Weimar era marking: their coat of arms/crest (always tiny and impossible to make out details), the maker's name, and their street address!

This is on the back of a 1919 Freikorps award, if I recall correctly?

[Rick Research]

Here's the shield mark, typically used alone, on the back of a very nice soft-gilt bronze Mecklenburg-Schwerin Friedrich Franz Cross 1st Class:

[Rick Research]

That's an old borrowed scan camera shot from my pre-scanner days (can't get the pin opened on the scanner for a closer view).

I also have the mark on a Prussian Flyers' Commemorative Badge that I remain happy (albeit admittedly in ignorance) with, and I know Jeff McCulloh has one on the back of a tightly mounted enamel Silesian Eagle 2nd Class in a Frackspange trio.

Somebody had the mark on the reverse of an Oldenburg FAK 1st Class, I think?

Now, like many of the Third Reich marks, including Juncker, this HAS been used in fakery. I'm just concerned that some beginning collectors may OVERreact, as has been the case with real WW2 Souval marks, and disregard ORIGINAL pieces as fakes.

Anyone else with Meybauer shield mark badges, please post them here.

I'm not sure exactly when they BEGAN using this shield mark. Certainly appears it was in use BY 1919, with Freikorps awards, and I would assume that since it probably represents the Imperial crown with ribands over the Hohenzollern coat of arms, it MAY have been used during WW1. It was certainly still being used in the summer of 1939, when they were making silver Spanish Crosses.

[Eric Stahlhut]

Thanks very much, Rick!

Here's another image of the hallmark in question. Wording reads, ' P. MEYBAUER, BERLIN JUNCKER st. 19' and has the crest above. The disc is marked, 'D.R.G.M. 653146' which was the patent number for this attachment.
Owned exclusively by the firm of Paul Meybauer.
This badge is the star issued by the Freikorps von Diebitsch. See pages 52 and 53 of Detlev's book.

[stogieman]

Excellent Info!

Great thread and while I no longer doubt the mark itself, I suspect many of the pieces I see it on. But that's for another day. The information here is great and to the point. I thank both Rick & Eric for sharing it! Cheers!