Any idea what this is?

[Ken1967]

Hi everyone, I have run across this disc and am not sure what it is. Any ideas?

Thanks!
Ken

[Ken1967]

Back/front??

[Mark S.]

do you think its militaria orientated?

It reminds me of those tags they nail to the end of boards in a load of finished lumber.

[Airborne Nut]

It also reminds me of the tags that the mine workers put on the board "back in the day" when they went down the shaft. Usually it had their last name and some sort of ID #. Sort of like those modern day "in the office out of the office slider boards" WHen the mine worker would go down the mine he would put his tag on the board in the appropraite shaft of the mine he was in. That way if there were an accident you could tell exactly who was in the mine, etc...

-Shane

do you think its militaria orientated?

It reminds me of those tags they nail to the end of boards in a load of finished lumber.

[Ken1967]

I believe it is Eastern Foreign Volunteer Dog Tag who fought for the Germans in WW2, as it came with some Foreign Volunteer items I acquired many years ago. But I have not ever seen one before, so I wasn't sure of who would have worn this.

[Chris Stewart]

Ken,

Foreign volunteers were issued standard erkennungsmarke just the same as all soldiers in the Wehrmacht. Even Russian volunteers were issued standard discs.

This is not a German issued dogtag though. Sorry!

[Gaspare]

This could be a equipment tag or a key tag OR might very well be some sort of personal tag like your thinking. At one time on their old site B+S had some unidentified tags. If I remember right there were some round and triangle ones..Contact them maybe they can be of some help.. , G.


B&S Militaria
bands@sck.pl or bands@kki.pl
http://www.bands.sck.pl/index.php?action=Listings

[Jacob Andreasen]

Hello!
Gaspare is right, i looks like a equipment tag.

Here is a similar one attach to a mess tin.

/Jacob