9. Unterseebootsflottille tradition badge

[Yubari]

interesting, thank you for sharing!!

[Petrus]

Hi, found this link and wanted to share this one with you. As is quoted below the Uboat archive hade several of these badges in their collection when i visited in the 1990s. This one i actually recieved as a thank you gift from Mr Horst Bredow himself at the museum as a thank you for some help i gave him.

//Petrus

From Gordon Williamson's posting on GMIC in 2011:

"I recall the box full of original enamel Sawfish badges that were discovered in the stores of a badge maker in France some years back, perfect little pieces and of superior quality. They were donated as a gift to the U-Boot Archiv.

The little green enamel sawfish badges were, at the time, sold off by the Archive to raise funds, (they wouldn't do that with items donated by ex-U-Boat crew themselves but as they got a box load of these for free keeping a sample for the Archive collection and using the rest to raise funds was a sensible idea). They really should have charged much more for them even back then. I recall buying one for just £10 ! You couldn't even buy a fake one for that price now, let alone an original. I seem to remember though that you could only buy a single example."

From £10 back then to €560 on E-bay in 2016. Someone made a good investment.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Tom B]

These are REALLY Great pieces !!!! Tom

[Yubari]

if original...wow