This is example of s-boot with standard setup, which I belive to be original.
Cheers,
Hubert
Cheers,
Hubert
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more pics (badge comes from e-medals).
H.Comment
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The last badge I've seen made in Bacqueville style - Destroyer with standard setup.
I've never seen French made Minesweeper.
Cheers,
HubertComment
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and reverse.
H.Comment
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This is certainly an interesting thread but it's making my eyes hurt.
Whether produced in the '40s or the 60's, you can certainly see why there's no such thing as an actually awarded piece of this type...
Can anyone post some good closeups of external and internal margins for study?
Best regards,
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Hi Norm,
Sorry for this 'photo-bombardment'
I just wanted to post full variety of these 'Bacqueville-style' badges in order to show different 'variants' popping up on dealers sites.
I personally do not collect them at all. As you've said there is no photographic evidence at all. No evidence of such badge being a part of proven grouping or so. On the other hand there are lots of doubts like - PK officially forbade to produce German awards abroad (except of Japanese made AC - but in this case there was a reason to do so).
After reading many threads on these badges the most favourable (but least probable) scenario I found was that these were produced in France unofficially late war in very small quantities and not with a goal to be awarded to anybody and rather for souvenir market, and even this is much far-fetched IMO.
The fact is that prototypes from '60ies were faked extensively from these times. So all we can do here is to try to:
- tell apart '60ies prototypes from later fakes; or
- find technical/construction details within '60ies prototypes beeing arguments behind or against 'wartime theory'.
Cheers,
HubertComment
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Did the French makers begin to make the KM badges during the war to market to the German forces?
Sorry if this has been asked before; it just popped into my head.
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