Plastic Combat Badges?

[Thomas Durante]

Hi Dion,

The Para badge that Bob Hritz shows is a copy of a post-war Souval reproduction Para badge. So if we accept that the Para badge was made by Souval in the 1960s or later, then the plastic copies of it must have come later in my opinion.

Tom

[Robin Lumsden]

Anyone here remember Gordon Owen's shop in the 1970s?

Guess not.

He used to run the UK 'Third Reich Collectors' Association'.

You could get away with a name like that in the good old (pre-PC) days.

[FW 200]

I remember the WB one. I think it was bakelit. The badges are made out of that WHW type material, its sort of brittle.

You saw these in the US? Given the quality of German trinkets my Grandparents bought me in Germany as a kid, and WHW and other bakelite badges, I'm sure the were capable of making excellent pieces, but then there's the issue of the NS symbol, which would have prevented it. I've never seen anything like them here in America.

[münster]

I do not know Tom and Frank, that is why I passed on them.

Yes it was in The US, I see things there completely different then here in Germany.

If they would have been 10 bucks or so I would have got them to post because the aging and material they were constructed of seemed wartime, they just had that look about them and appeared very brittle. If they were pre 45 I imagine that they were for kids or WHW items. If fake I would say as others say- Movie Props or something to that effect.

Best
Dion

[Gary B]

Hi,

As has been mentioned in this thread there have been some discussions on whether or not the Germans made Bakelite wound badges. If I remember the story correctly, some were dug up in the Stalingrad area. There also exists bakelite German buckles so I guess anything is possible.

Gary B