Rudolf Souval badges for review

[JAndrew]

Oh, I agree. I got mine in the late 60's / early 70's when Bill Stump, Paul Peters and gang brought them back from their visit to Vienna along withed cased Eagle orders of every grade except the diamonds, Arts and Science awards, also cased, cased stars to the iron cross and everything else you can imagine and much of it sold today as real for a lot of money. I purged the KM items from my collection when I purged all the repro stuff (at least I think I got it all) some years later. But I fear this stuff is being resurrected as memories begin to fade. Just a cautionary tale.
JAndrew

[Norm F]

Hi Guys,

Here are the S-boat on C. Baldes' site and the Minesweeper on the same update. It's interesting that the descriptions on both say "repainted" rather than "post-war finish". I think we have enough physical and anecdotal evidence so say these were finished in the Souval factory and not just some later owner's re-paint job. Which gets back to Patrick's choice of words in post #5 where he too said:
"These are all original Souval badges or at least 'wartime compatible' but have been refinished post war by the factory. These turn up from time to time and the gold and black finish is very distinctive."

So were they raw zinc badges finished in this manner in the late 60's/early 70's, or were they leftover stock originally with wartime finish that faded and deteriorated and then cleaned and refinished in the Souval factory. Probably an academic question of little importance, but just wondering since it might have some bearing on whether the badge was actually assembled in wartime vs. post-war and only refinished later.

For now I think the consensus is they are genuine Souval products, "wartime compatible" materials and construction, time of assembly unknown but finished post-war in the Souval factory in the 60's/early70's?

Best regards,
---Norm