Childs Chicago - German veteran Badge?

[tystgaard]

Hi Forum

Can someone ID this badge made in the US
Last picture are from a site that have another
badge from this maker.

Thanks
Nicolai

[gregM]

I would say that it's a pin for a Veterans organization offered by
one of the many German - American social clubs.

[tystgaard]

Thanks

Thanks

[Gary Symonds]

The "Iron for Gold" program was only a wartime patriotic measure, harkening back to the war in 1813.

The enamel badge is clearly postwar, why and how would the program continue?

In my opinion the description is wrong.

[Don D.]

The Gold for Iron is perfectly logical prior to April 1917. We had a large German immigrant community. The enamel badge makes sense for a post war (either WW1 or WW2 as those same immigrants were still here afterwards.

[Gary Symonds]

The Gold for Iron is perfectly logical prior to April 1917. We had a large German immigrant community. The enamel badge makes sense for a post war (either WW1 or WW2 as those same immigrants were still here afterwards.

So, German-American citizens in the post 1918 world we’re trading their gold jewelry for iron substitutes?

Why?

[gregM]

Guys,
The original poster of this thread added the picture of the gold for iron cross
just as an example of another piece made by the Chicago company.

Nowhere did it say anything about it being a post war item. The two medals have
nothing to do with each other than the fact that they were produced by the same maker.
The gold for iron piece is war time and the top piece is post war.

[Don D.]

Guys,
The original poster of this thread added the picture of the gold for iron cross
just as an example of another piece made by the Chicago company.

Nowhere did it say anything about it being a post war item. The two medals have
nothing to do with each other than the fact that they were produced by the same maker.
The gold for iron piece is war time and the top piece is post war.

That's what I said.