U-Boat for discussion

[Norm F]

Need to discuss this badge from e-stand.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...95#post6675995

[BubbaZ]

Hi,
It does not look like any of accepted wartime variants of design type 5 U-boat badges. The lack of catch plate on the zincer obviously does not help to give it ... I would say - unmarked postwar Souval.
Cheers,
Hubert

[Norm F]

Same type?
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...58#post6647258

[BubbaZ]

Same type?
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...58#post6647258

IMO yes, the same type - except of the catch obviously.
Cheers,
Hubert

[Bob Hritz]

I have refunded the buyer for this badge, which I mailed to a foreign country yesterday.

Same, but different. I like that. Reminds me of the destroyer badge I sold years ago, then declared fake on WAF, resold for pennies by me after making refund, and later determined to be a rare original.

I think there is a bit yet to be learned in this unhealthy lust to classify every badge by maker.

Bob Hritz

[Jeff V]

Bob, is this the badge you were referring to:http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...8780&highlight
Not quite the way you just described.

[Norm F]

Bob, is this the badge you were referring to:http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...8780&highlight
Not quite the way you just described.

Yes, that's the Destroyer badge that Bob was speaking of, first discussed in 2008 at which time the worst comments were just unsure -- never called a fake.

Also discussed again here in 2011, all positive:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...19#post4849919

And again here:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...48#post6145948

At any rate, not relevant to the discussion of this zinc U-Boat which hasn't inspired much debate.

Best regards,
---Norm