Weitze Mint Bacqueville Badges

[Darrell]

Is it just me, or do all those mint Bacqueville badges on Weitze's update today make you go ... hmmmm .....

You don;t see these at all in mint condition. Now suddenly 1 of almost every KM badge in one update

[Darrell]

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[DaveNZ]

I cant comment on originality: ill leave that to the experts but the aux cruiser looks OK

perhaps he brought an entire collection?

I have a bacqueville aux cruiser: weitze has his for 550 euro: i had no idea they commanded a price like that. or is that over the top pricing?>

[Nordmark]

Bacqueville in general makes me go hmmm...

[WARLORD]

Bacqueville badges, now having been confirmed as original pieces are extreemly collectable. In fact they are scarse verging on rare. It took me 25 years to get a U-Boat badge. I turned one down in 1980, thinking uumm. So I think eros 550.00 was not out of the way for a bacqueville aux cruiser.

[Don D.]

I must have missed a thread. Where was it confirmed that they are originals?

[WARLORD]

It has been confirmed that they were found in the French Naval offices in Paris. This was as early as 1947.

[Robert P.]

I cant comment on originality: ill leave that to the experts but the aux cruiser looks OK

perhaps he brought an entire collection?

I have a bacqueville aux cruiser: weitze has his for 550 euro: i had no idea they commanded a price like that. or is that over the top pricing?>

Yes, he did. Paul Hogle at Lakesidetrader has some nice French-made naval badges also.

[Nordmark]

Bacqueville badges, now having been confirmed as original pieces are extreemly collectable. In fact they are scarse verging on rare. It took me 25 years to get a U-Boat badge. I turned one down in 1980, thinking uumm. So I think eros 550.00 was not out of the way for a bacqueville aux cruiser.

These are not for my collection. For 550€ you could get a really nice tombak Schwerin/Berlin piece, which is not questionable. I would not buy these dreadful badges...


Daniel

[Don D.]

It has been confirmed that they were found in the French Naval offices in Paris. This was as early as 1947.

Confirmed how?

[WARLORD]

By witness. This in my new book.

[Don D.]

Witness testimony is universally the least accurate of information out there, especially if it is some 65-85 year old guy. I hope you have a period pic to back it up.

[Steve Mezey]

S&L 1st Pattern E-boat badges

Same with the 1st pattern S&L e-boat badges. They are now in books stating them to be original but I was always taught and was told by many collectors for years that only Schwerin was the sole manufacturer of 1st pattern E-boat badges. I do not know if anyone actually has photograghic evidence that the S&L badges did exsist pre-1945 or have veteran proof? Perhaps there is a thread somewhere here on the forum. As for me I own a 1st Pattern by Schwerin and have no interest in ever acquiring or owning a S&L example. Some believe some don't
Steve M.

[JAYP]

I have a boxed Bacqueville U-Boot Badge that I aquired from a WAC in my town.It was given to her at the end of the war by a admirer,the inside lid of the box has written on it german submarine officers pin.I also have a 1st pattern eboat badge and aux cruser from vet lots so I have no problem with these being wartime produced.Jay Parisi

[Jody]

KM badges

Same with the 1st pattern S&L e-boat badges. They are now in books stating them to be original but I was always taught and was told by many collectors for years that only Schwerin was the sole manufacturer of 1st pattern E-boat badges. I do not know if anyone actually has photograghic evidence that the S&L badges did exsist pre-1945 or have veteran proof? Some believe some don't
Steve M.

Hi Steve,
I obtained in the mid 1970's a 1st pattern S-boat by S&L. It did come from a veteran source (a good friend of one of my great-uncles, my 2nd pattern mint Schwerin Bwelrin U-boat badge came from him too). The badges were just simply given to me (BTW, the vet was at Cherbourg). I don't doubt them at all.

Regards,
Jody