Very Rare JFS S-Boat Badge 1st. Pattern

[Tom Yanacek]

Hello guys,

Here is a very rare 1st-pattern S-Boat Badge by Josef Feix Söhne. Not only is it maker marked 'JFS', but it is personalized to Kapitänleutnant Bauer (a very German-sounding name, so it has to be real).

Best regards,
Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

the markings:

[Tom Yanacek]

And, if anyone is interested, the same auction is also offering the elusive Hollywood film prop S-Boat Badge by Sean Barry Weske.

[josh105]

Ah, the super rare Sean Barry Weske - I keep this one under 24 heat & video surveillance!

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[Mike Kenny]

Hi Tom,

I've only just had breakfast so seeing these was not a pleasant way to start the day. Fortunately I managed to keep everything down.

I like the way the "engraving" on the "JFS" has been "melted" into the back of the badge! Exceptionally inventive use of a fine-tipped soldering iron!

Regards
Mike

[Tom Yanacek]

Hi Tom,

I've only just had breakfast so seeing these was not a pleasant way to start the day. Fortunately I managed to keep everything down.

I like the way the "engraving" on the "JFS" has been "melted" into the back of the badge! Exceptionally inventive use of a fine-tipped soldering iron!

Regards
Mike

Hi Mike,

Sorry about that! I'm glad to hear that you didn't spill your cookies. And I bet that when you clicked on this thread, you thought you were going to see something real and never before seen, eh?

Best regards,
Tom

PS: The soldering iron engraving works well with lead, don't you think?

[Tom Yanacek]

Ah, the super rare Sean Barry Weske - I keep this one under 24 heat & video surveillance!

Wow! And yours even has the Testor's model airplane paint gold wreath. It doesn't get any better than that.

Best regards,
Tom

[Rik]

Looks like the engraving was factory done.

[Jody]

S-boot

Hi Tom,
I happen to like it. I feel it is just very late war. I think this was the style worn by S-boot crews at the end of the war in Norway; at least up until the mid 1980's.

Regards,
Jody

[BubbaZ]

I got hoaxed by this catching title and thought for a sec Tom has discovered something new again

Cheers,
Hubert

[mmiller]

Tom,

Most certainly jeweler made. There is one just like it on page 7,942 of Neimann's guide.

Mark

[John R.]

This was an interesting sale on proxibid.

Comments?

John

[Norm F]

Hi John,

I have serious concerns about that U-Boat badge. Despite the vertical pin system it's not a Hymmen design. Looks like a copy of the Deumer design but with the wrong cutouts around the eagle head and under the sub, and a cut-out swastika similar to the U.S.-made copy shown by Gordon on page 173 of Torpedo Los. It's not an exact match to that badge but possibly another version.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Norm F]

The Destroyer is an odd looking duck as well. A casting of a Schwerin perhaps?

Fortunately the grouping only sold for $4500 + 20% buyer's premium... To be generous, and to give the benefit of the doubt, I suppose one might say the photos are distorted in enlargement...but how could anyone shell out this kind of cash for what we see here?

Best regards,
---Norm

[Norm F]

Maybe one of the cross guys could comment on this DK.