Destroyer badge confirmation

[Gregorio Torres]

Second opinion needed on this one
Thank you in advance
Greg

[Gregorio Torres]

reverse

[mrg]

Hi Greg hard to tell with these pics, but I believe it could be ok, the pin looks as if it may have been broken off at the end, the reverse looks ok if not alittle crude but I believe that is down to the flash? In my opinion I would say original but better pics are needed. lets see whats others make of it. All the best

[Geyuserrectus]

Hi!!!

I agree with mrg. From these pics a original piece.

Regards

Thomas

[JustinG]

Here is a good thread to check out regarding RS KM destroyer badges.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...1&highlight=RS

regards,
JustinG

[Gregorio Torres]

Thank you very much for your contributions.
Greg

[John R.]

Accepted as a wartime RS example. Typical die flaws indicated that are seen on other destroyers by this maker, name scratched into the reverse, probably wartime but as is the case with most scratched names, who knows, and a broken pin tip.

Catch and hinge typical as are the circular extraction marks and their placement on the reverse.

It is therefore considered a period badge but its value is diminished by the maker and the broken pin tip. Value possibly enhanced by what is scratched into the reverse.

John

[Gregorio Torres]

Thank you John
that´s what I call a complete diagnostics.
Badge came witha a very complete lot of a sargeant in destroyers (medals, documents and insignias). The EKII document is signed by Admiral Günther Lütjens in october 1940, who´ll die comanding the Battleship Bismarck five or six months later.
The lot came directly from the family, but curiously initials scrached in the reverse are not the same than the name of this sailor. So, I thought that he could have lost his original badge during the last days of the war or after the capitulation, and to have bought a replacement item made by RS after the war. Now I know this is a war time made badge. How he got it we´ll know never.
Regards
Greg

[John R.]

Hi Greg,

Well, the associated items are quite interesting and I hope you post them on this thread.

What are the letters on the reverse? Hard for me to make them out. They did not necessarily mean the name of the sailor and perhaps we can correlate it to something else.

John

[Gregorio Torres]

This is the lot of this sailor with the Destroyer badge included. Documents have the signatures of Erich Bey and Günther Lutjens. Both died when comanding battleships Scharnhorst and Bismarck.
Regards
Greg

[Steve P]

Greg, That is a superb group man!!

[mrg]

Hi Greg Lovely

[Hans Kondor]

Lovely group Greg!

[Bruce Simcox]

Hi Greg......

......That is indeed a splendid grouping. Congratulations, and thanks for giving us a look!

[Pepe77]

Wow,congrats to this group. could you please post pics of the EK´s minis?

regards Pepe