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    Fallschirmjager Badge Opinions

    Luftwaffe awards are not my main area but I was offered this badge as part of a deal with other items. Can I get some opinions on it please? I tried to search using "unmarked Fj Badge" and couldn't find anything that looked like this comparing the eagle and rivets. The rivets scare the heck out of me. What do you think?

    Thanks for your opinions.

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        A-type Cupal Eagle S&L Para and like you mentionned something happened with the rivets.

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          Thanks Seb. I guess this means it's original then

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            As Seb correctly identified, this one is a Cupal Eagle S&L badge with A-Type eagle. The eagle is A-type because it doesn't have the big wing flaw which is found on the B-type eagles. Whether its wartime or postwar, we cannot be sure IMO but it stands a good chance because the A-type cupal eagle matches zinc-based eagles used by S&L.

            The zinc-based S&L badges have been found ground dug and in vets hands so I think we can be relatively confident that these zinc-based badges are wartime. They have also been found on the Souvenier sample boards put together by S&L in the postwar period, so stands to reason that some of these are wartime as well.

            The rivets on yours are soft aluminum and not well formed but rather crudely flattened. This is another sign that points to postwar IMO.

            The Cupal eagles, on the other hand have not been found ground dug or from vets hands as far as I am aware. They also don't show up on the postwar souvenier boards, so when were they made? The eagles match the wartime-produced zinc based eagles, so that is a good sign and could point to wartime. But it is also a very good possibility that S&L used their wartime die to punch out these Cupal eagles postwar (but before 1957 because the 1957 eagles have the wing flaw). So IMO your badges was most certainly made before 1957. I think that is the best we can do at the moment in dating your badge.

            Tom
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