Minesweeper - Schwerin

[Blued]

Hello all,

I was interested in picking this one up and figured it wouldn't hurt to confirm with you all. What do you think?

Also, I never seem to understand the concept of the Kriegsmarine finish or gilding. How does this gilding or gold finish rate for this badge?

Thanks,
Chad

[Norm F]

Hi Chad,

An excellent Schwerin. I'd the say the gilding is better than average on this nice example. It's missing the frosting from the water plume but most are -- hard to find a truly mint one.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Blued]

Great, thanks for the confirmation Norm. I had a feeling it was a good one, but I hang out in the Army section too much, so I needed that second opinion

Thanks for the info the gilding. It seems like the original pins on these Schwerin Minesweepers are always fairly long like this one, correct?

[Norm F]

Yes, always long like that.

Cheers,
---Norm

[mrg]

Would agree nice original

[Lorenzo Brown]

3rd opinion: A Beauty!

[Hans Kondor]

Very nice one Chad!

[Blued]

Thanks for the guys. I was able to pick this one up luckily

[mrg]

Forgot to mention the ones with the silver reverse are the harder ones to find so that makes it even better

[Norm F]

Forgot to mention the ones with the silver reverse are the harder ones to find so that makes it even better

Hi Gary,

But the reverse of that badge of Chad's is not silver, just a trick of the wearing and the flash. It has the usual grey "altsilber" effect.

Best regards,
---Norm

[mrg]

Hi Gary,

But the reverse of that badge of Chad's is not silver, just a trick of the wearing and the flash. It has the usual grey "altsilber" effect.

Best regards,
---Norm

Hi Norm I can see that now , sure looked silver wheN i first saw it, All the best

[mrg]

Hi Norm this is what I thought I saw, here's my silver finished version

[mrg]

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[Norm F]

Hi Norm this is what I thought I saw, here's my silver finished version

Hi Gary,

A very nice variant finish to be sure. But of course that's on a zincer, not a tombak badge like Chad's.

Martin's that was posted in the reference thread in posts 8 and 9 was the only tombak version I've seen with the silver back, which I believe represents an unfinished variant which skipped the step of chemically darkening the reverse and the waves.

Best regards,
---Norm