NSFK badges help request

[Stijn David]

Hello,


I have a serious interest in the following NSFK badge " Grosse NSFK Segelfliegerabzeichen ", so im wondering, howmany of you guys have one of these rare birds in the collection, please show us scans front and reverse , etc ...

It is stated that tehre does exist several variants ( with numbers, without numbers, etc .. ) and I would like to catalogue them a bit so lets get the ball rolling .

Personally i don not posses one ( yet ) but i wil show a award document for this rare badge ( there is a very nice facsimile o the doc. ) from my collection to give you guys a tought after what im looking for

Cordial Greetings and thanks for the help ,

[Ken Jasper]

I have never seen one in any collection. The only one I ever saw on the market was the one that Detlev Niemann offered about six months ago. I would have boought it, but it had enamel repair on one of the gulls. Detlev had it listed for several weeks and I don't know if it ever sold.

[Stijn David]

NSFK grosse Segelfliegerabzeichen

Hello,


Thanks Ken for the answer , i have been browsing trough Detlev's catalogue and the badge is not there anymore.

Are there any such badges in private collections ? or the award documents as this one ? , they are quite rare but there have to be some collectors out there ?


Cordial Greetings ,

[Ken Jasper]

You might consider sending a msg to Sabina (sk@detlev-niemann.de) and asking her if the NSFK badge is still available, but not listed.

[Chris Boonzaier]

This is my wifes Greatgrandfathers.
There sould be NO variations.

[Chris Boonzaier]

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[Chris Boonzaier]

And his glider pilots ausweis for the earlier C badge

[Stijn David]

excellent ; NSFK glider badges

Hello Chris,


Excellent => this is the info that i was looking for , very nice badge + quite a early number ( OHHHH I like it ) => what is the metal used for the badge ? do you also have the matching award document ? , etc ...

You state :

There sould be NO variations.

, on what do you base this ? , i have seen 2 types untill now , for example the type you show here ( with recipients number ) and a more crude made type without any number ( and a round needle => it should be a so called private purchase piece ???????? , offcoarse this is dangerous because we know in most cases what private purchase means )
Do you have any sources for this statement ? , etc ... anything that you can tell me about this is very important .

Im in a phase of putting togheter award lists ( a hell of a work and advancing very slowly ) and therefore those numbers and names are very important for me .

Do you also know if this badge was intered in the personal papers ( such as Soldbuch, Wehrpass, etc .. ) i assume yes but i have never encountered one

Cordial Greetings,

[Ken Jasper]

I believe that Chris is correct. There shoud always be an issue number on this badge. I would shy away from any that do not have the number. I also believe that these badges were made from zinc as they were instituted in 1942.

[skip]

Hi all,

here are mine.

Skip

[skip]

the doc. for the small one.

[Stijn David]

waw impressive

Hello,


Thanks Skip for sharing => very very nice , i love it actually

Do you have a clue on who was the owner of your NSFK large glider badge ?

I also like the Silver C very much + it is a quite hard to find set , especially the hand embroyed one !!!!!! , very interesting ( iff you are ever tired of one of those beauty's let me know )


Cordial Greetings and thanks for sharing ,

[skip]

Hi Stign,

the owner of the large badge is the same guy as on the doc., I got these togeather with his Pilots Badge (early BSW) and his bronze night fighter clasp ( unmarked).
This guy served with Udet and had something to do with the Air Ministry, this is him on the left, togeather with some fat guy!!,

[skip]

Here´s the results of some reseach I did, was´nt much to find out, the rest was probably destroyed.
I actually parted with all of this some months ago as it is not really my area of interest, I only kept the pilots badge.Sorry if I had known about this place earlier I would have offered it to you.

Skip

[Stijn David]

thanks

Hello Skip,


Thanks for posting the additional information => it will come in handy ( to bad for me you parted with this grouping as im in love with this stuff )

I have a list of all the awarded Silver C badges ( received from one of my Glider friends ) during period 1931 & 1943 and it is correct that nr. 439 ( the one you show ) is indeed for mr. G.Sachsenberg , Dessau => awarded on 12.08.1937

is can see that Silver C metal badge has another mark , is that the producers marking ? => if yes who was the producer ?

Are there other persons who have this large NSFK glider pilots badge in their collection ?

Thanks once again for sharing,