Presented here is a timeline classification system for the Otto Schickle U-Boat badge to go along with our Schwerin, Juncker, Meybauer and S&L U-Boat timeline systems. My thanks (and apologies) to all those whose previously posted images I've borrowed for this presentation. Studies like this are possible only due to the material posted by the collecting community in the forums over the past 10 years. First some pre-amble and then the classification system will follow.
This design represents one of the most common of the nine makers of Tombak U-Boat badges, suggesting that after Schwerin, this was likely an official award piece for the Kriegsmarine in the first part of the war.
The attribution of this U-Boat design to Schickle was confirmed by the June 1940 catalog previously posted by Gordon Williamson. This Schickle catalog was acquired by Gordon from Helmut Weitze in 2004. It consisted of three parts, a November 1938 "Katalog", a June 1940 "Katalog II" which continued right on from the first with continuing page numbers, and six separate large fold-out supplement pages with separate yet professionally printed page numbers. Both the 1940 "Katalog II" and the supplementary fold-out page "No. 2" show this U-Boat badge, and the supplement also shows the Schickle Minesweeper and Destroyer badges. In addition to this, Gordon Williamson has previously stated that he handled a Tombak example marked L/15 by Schickle, although one has yet to be posted on the forums.
Best regards,
---Norm
This design represents one of the most common of the nine makers of Tombak U-Boat badges, suggesting that after Schwerin, this was likely an official award piece for the Kriegsmarine in the first part of the war.
The attribution of this U-Boat design to Schickle was confirmed by the June 1940 catalog previously posted by Gordon Williamson. This Schickle catalog was acquired by Gordon from Helmut Weitze in 2004. It consisted of three parts, a November 1938 "Katalog", a June 1940 "Katalog II" which continued right on from the first with continuing page numbers, and six separate large fold-out supplement pages with separate yet professionally printed page numbers. Both the 1940 "Katalog II" and the supplementary fold-out page "No. 2" show this U-Boat badge, and the supplement also shows the Schickle Minesweeper and Destroyer badges. In addition to this, Gordon Williamson has previously stated that he handled a Tombak example marked L/15 by Schickle, although one has yet to be posted on the forums.
Best regards,
---Norm
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