Anti Partisan Badge in silver

[Patrick W]

Hi guys

An interested member would like some opinions on this badge as to originality. It has been broken and repaired. Please give me your thoughts on it.

Many thanks

Patrick

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[Thomas Bendixen]

Hi Patrick

Difficult to see if the soft details is from wear - but it looks promising. Colud you post size in mm?

Cheers Thomas

[Patrick W]

Hi Thomas

Thanks for the response, the grey areas on the photo are worn as there is no finish remaining so some of the detail to the snake scales isn't as sharp.

The dimensions are 60mm by 50mm

Anybody else out there withan opinion? This forum seems to have become very quiet of late, where has everybody gone??

[Thomas Bendixen]

Hi Patrick

I have no problems with it, size matters

Cheers Thomas

[Don D.]

Looks ok to me besides having been damaged.

[wh014d4394]

hi pat as your badge bean zinc soldered are just glued together

[Patrick W]

Thanks for the opinion Don

Jimmy- the badge has been soldered back together

[Ludwig]

Looks OK to me.

[Tommaso]

Guys,

there were just 1600 awardings of this badge.
Dont you think we have started to see really too many "genuine" pieces nowadays?
Doesn't this thing let you think?

Cheers
T

[paddywhack]

awarded true but how many were made in total?? just look at the CCC in gold!! many many more were made then were awarded!!and with the GIs at the end of the war im sure the factory were emptied of them! still real but just not awarded!!

[wh014d4394]

awarded true but how many were made in total?? just look at the CCC in gold!! many many more were made then were awarded!!and with the GIs at the end of the war im sure the factory were emptied of them! still real but just not awarded!!

yes your right paddy. i was talking to a british vet that told me the GIs were like rampaging vikings

[Tommaso]

As far as I know the BKA were produced my manifacturers AGMuK on request from RF-SS on the number of awarding they needed, I really do not remember anyone to have seen any kind of depot or warhouse full of Bandenkampfabzeichen.
Say that there were produced tons of extra BKA is just pure speculation to my opinion and would help fakers.

CCC in gold is not even the same thing of BKA if you know how and why they were awarded (Himmler reserved for himself the awarding of all the gold BKA): actually any Heer/Polizei/SS/Luftwaffe soldier on any front would have been awarded with CCC but just few units were employed in antipartisan actions and this is the reason why the BKA was a rarely awarded badge.
Do you have any vet source that could confirm that GI went back with helmets filled up with BKA?
And if positive, have you got any picture of this sea of BKA?
Would you please tell me the number of total CCC awardings? Is it lower than BKA?
And then again, the BKA is considered one of the most rare badges around, why the CCC is not?
You can find several period pictures with the CCC shown, but you won't find easily a BKA one.
I strongly belive the BKA produced in total were no more than 2000-2500.


Cheers
T