Hi guys,
Wanted to show my latest Kriegs purchase, a nice Schwerin Blockade Runner. I have been looking for one of these for a while to fit a gap in my Kriegs collection and this one was priced right and had just enough wear to it to fit my taste. I rarely add anything to my kriegs collection as I am very picky, but this one talked to me due to the wear, which I like very much.
Its a Schwerin dishback. These are usually found in zink, and I have never seen one in tombak before, so I think this must have been one of the last ones made before the full switch to zink. The hinge is the type usually found on their zink BRs, but the catch is the type found on the tombak ones, without catchplate. It looks to have been silver plated, and then oxidized on the wreath and the eagle frosted. The base metal looks more copperish than yellow, so my thought is it has a pretty high copper content. Is this consistent with Schwerin badges?
Hope you like her as much as I do. I just love a certain amount of wear on these tombak badges and you can see that the end of the pin has also been sharped, maybe by the recipient, but who knows for sure.
Thanks guys.
Tom
Wanted to show my latest Kriegs purchase, a nice Schwerin Blockade Runner. I have been looking for one of these for a while to fit a gap in my Kriegs collection and this one was priced right and had just enough wear to it to fit my taste. I rarely add anything to my kriegs collection as I am very picky, but this one talked to me due to the wear, which I like very much.
Its a Schwerin dishback. These are usually found in zink, and I have never seen one in tombak before, so I think this must have been one of the last ones made before the full switch to zink. The hinge is the type usually found on their zink BRs, but the catch is the type found on the tombak ones, without catchplate. It looks to have been silver plated, and then oxidized on the wreath and the eagle frosted. The base metal looks more copperish than yellow, so my thought is it has a pretty high copper content. Is this consistent with Schwerin badges?
Hope you like her as much as I do. I just love a certain amount of wear on these tombak badges and you can see that the end of the pin has also been sharped, maybe by the recipient, but who knows for sure.
Thanks guys.
Tom
) look like a weak double-striking effect. It can be weakly seen in a few other areas on this example and is actually not uncommon on genuine Schwerin badges. Normally it's a decent sign of authenticity!
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