Blockade Runner badge opinions

[Mike Swan]

I'd greatly appreciate opinions on this recent e-stand purchase.

Mike

[BubbaZ]

Hi Mike,
Original zinc S&L Blockade Runner. Can you post better image of the main pin since I suspect Tom's '57-scrape' on it which means the badge comes from S&L postwar production...
See this thread for more details:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ht=1957+scrape
Cheers,
Hubert

[Mike Swan]

Hubert, thanks for your comment. I can't get further photos as the badge now has a new owner. He was concerned it doesn't appear in Weber's new books.

Mike

[Norm F]

Hi Guys,

The S&L's with this setup are somewhat controversial and we really can't say for sure when they were made - late wartime or early post-war. While the classic "post-war scrape" as described by Tom Durante is often associated with post-war badges, a very similar deep linear cut is seen in the pins with this setup which is seen on quite a few of the badges from the eMedals Lüdenscheid boards which we've discussed so many time before.

These souvenir boards are said to date from the early post-war period in Lüdenscheid in 1945, and could contain a combination of wartime assembled and post-war assembled badges. The time periods are not well defined for this setup.

Here's the example from the eMedals board.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Norm F]

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[Mike Swan]

Thanks, Norm. Very valuable info for me.

I also must advise it's not from estand.

I bought several in a short time and lost track of the correct source.

Mike

[Nordmark]

Hi Mike,
Original zinc S&L Blockade Runner. Can you post better image of the main pin since I suspect Tom's '57-scrape' on it which means the badge comes from S&L postwar production...
See this thread for more details:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ht=1957+scrape
Cheers,
Hubert

Hello Hubert,


I don´t know if new proof or knowledge came to light, but I think the subjunctive would be more in order. I would rather go with "might/could be an S&L postwar production", since we don´t have a definite proof for this. There is quite a large number of very experienced collectors who don´t agree with this theory and who consider these badges as perfectly fine wartime pieces.


Regards,



Daniel

[BubbaZ]

Hi Daniel, yes I agree it is more fair to say "might/could be an S&L postwar production".
Cheers,
Hubert

[GeneralThomas]

Hello, how much did you pay for this badge?