Bavarian I.D Disc

[Mac 66]

Just recieved this today for my collection, what do you guys think?

Sellers description

100% ORIGINAL IMPERIAL WW I AND QUITE SCARCE 1916 PATTERN BAVARIAN SOLDIERS, ERKENNUNGSMARKE OR IDENTITY DISC, IT BEARS THE SOLDIERS NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, HOME ADDRESS, THE 1ST REGIMENT ON ENLISTMENT, AND TO THE REVERSE THE TRANSFER TO ANOTHER REGIMENT DURING WARTIME, BOTH NICELY BEING BAVARIAN INFANTRY REGIMENTS. THE FULL DETAILS ARE ;-

LUDWIG EHRHARDT, BORN 8-5-1896, FROM GRAFENHAUSEN IN BAVARIA, JOINED THE 1ST BATTALION OF BAVARIAN INFANTRY REGIMENT NO.9, THEN LATER TRANSFERRED TO BAVARIAN INFANTRY REGIMENT NO.24. BAVARIAN UNITS ARE GETTING QUITE HARD TO FIND, EVEN IN GERMANY

[Gustaf B]

It looks like a nice example of the late war Erkennungsmarke, I can not remember the model, but I think it is the M1917.
Best
Gus

[Mac 66]

It looks like a nice example of the late war Erkennungsmarke, I can not remember the model, but I think it is the M1917.
Best
Gus

Thanks Gus much appreciated

Regards Scott.

[Gustaf B]

Hey Scott,
I was mistaken, it is an M1916 Marke, below are examples of the M1878 and M1915 Erkennugsmarke, the M1878 is also Bavarian

Best
Gus

[Mac 66]

Gus, Thanks for showing your nice condition Erkennugsmarkes, So mine is a M1916

Cheers Scott.

[Hoss]

Thanks for showing.
Fascinating area of collecting. 'German WW1 Identity Tags/Disks' by Peter Meinlschmidt is well worth a read, 200 pages packed with info including a pic of Mr Hitler,s WW1 Tag.

Eric

[Chip M]

I'd have to disagree with the seller's contention that this pattern is "quite scarce". It is probably the most commonly encountered pattern.

You can make the oxidation look better and protect the zink from further deterioration by covering the disk with a thin coat of vaseline jelly and then wiping the excess off.

I enjoy seeing the many variations of these and will second Eric's recommendation of Peter Meinlschmidt's book from 1993. Quite a few of my disks are in there. I corresponded with him last month and he still has copies of the English language version available.

Chip

[Mac 66]

Eric, Chip, Thanks for this valuable Info on Peter Meinlschmidt's Book & the Vaseline jelly to preserve the Tag which i will do today as i have some vaseline at hand, i,m just glad to have a nice enough I.D disc thats not broken or unreadable even if its a common enough pattern to find these days, Chip you know what these sellers are like everything got to be scarce, or ultra rare or Hens Teeth

Cheers Scott.