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Beautiful pieces, Ron.
Any further history on these? Please enlighten us.
great pieces.
Cheers,
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Mil,
In 1937, civilian workers in the German Aircraft Industry became eligible for a special badge of merit known as "Treeuewerkabzeichen der Betriebsgemeinschaften der Luftfahrt"......
Literally: ........Badge for loyal work in industrial complexes of air travel.
It came in two classes....silver for merit, and gilt for outstanding merit.
Likely only awarded up to the outbreak of the war in 1939, since after this time, merit of this kind could be rewarded by some grade of the War Merit Cross or Medal.
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Ron, I'm wondering what the T and wolfsangel symbol signifies. Perhaps T refers to "Treeuewerkabzeichen"?
The wolfsangel symbol is prominent with a double emboss in the middle of the wolfsangel itself.
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Great one.. I am glad to see someone posting this!
I have the same stick pin... always a real unique one IMO
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Here is mine.. I hope you don't mind...
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Anyone got matches?
The only person who will "mind" - is you, as the shown stickpin is an American post war fake.Originally posted by Rommel1933 View Post
The badge in post 3 by Ron, is also a post war American fake.
Unfortunately, nobody has bothered to research these, and have only - (until today if you look on War Relics Forum) - parroted what non-German speaking authors have offered up as "fact"
The Treuewerk, (an organization with no actual members) as well as the Treuewerkabzeichen, (and the actual reason(s) for the Treuewerk) are clearly explained in the October 15th issue of the UM. "Honor Awards" my left foot-in-mouth indeed. "Only found on a stickpin" my right-foot-in-mouth.
The first person who asks for a translation, gets severely beaten!
A joke of course, but necessary to bring a small amount of humor to a post that is otherwise sad. Thumbs-up and emoticons instead of a small amount of research, and a Popper look at the actual item(s), have now led to dealers attempting to pass these fakes off as genuine. (have a look for yourself, many of these fakes being tauted as genuine, if you need links to dealers sites, just ask)
I am still busy gathering firewood, so, to be continued...
You do not, want the Boris-the-animal-production with raised, bubble-bubble lettering.
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Jo, I am really impressed with my countrymen. I had no idea we Americans were turning out so many good fakes. Witness the controversy going on in the Tinnies Forum about the Hoffstatter SS civil stickpins with raised maker marks, which you also claim were made in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Of course without the slightest evidence.
Now, we are treated to the Merit Badge for workers in the aircraft industry with raised maker marks as fakes.
Here is the obverse of my gold example. I'm not showing the reverse.
In the SS stickpins you told us that the obverse of the fakes was so good that "nobody" could tell if these stickpins were real "without turning them over."
I guess these aircraft pins are also so good by these same crafty Americans, that again since the obverse is perfect, we have to see the reverse.
These yanks, somehow got ahold of the original obverse German dies, but couldn't obtain the reverse dies. Right Jo?
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Hi,
Here's mine, i was (and still am) very glad when i found this one. Not in the best condition and quite worn with a broken off pin (which happened often after repeated bending them for preventing slipping from a jacket), but even on these images it looks quite different, as can be seen it's also with impessed GES GESCH. on the reverse.
Am i seeing things that are not there or do the raised marked ones have an "eye" on the birds head and more square runic symbol? (and more overall rough surface/details).
Gary, with all respect, you are not exactly helping the collectorscommunity with sarcastic posts like the above, especially new collectors can be fooled by that. Sometimes we have to accept that we got burnt and got a fake. It's never nice, but collecting comes with a heavy price and we have all been there. I would love to see your gold badge better if possible, i have been on the lookout for one for a long time and never came across one i liked. This topic can be very valuable to teach everyone more.
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Gaston, how could "new collectors be fooled" by a demand for evidence?Originally posted by jabnus View Post
You are simply accepting Jo Rivett's conclusions without supporting evidence.
In my opinion, sarcastic as it may seem, new collectors are put at a disadvantage by accepting on face value and faith, the opinions of others.
Do you like my gold stickpin? The picture is very clear.
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Hello all,
If there is something of fact to share from War Relics Forum please share it with us. I don't see much in line of sharing any proof of what is real or not. I just see sarcastic comments that such and such is fake and weird photoshop. We all want to learn.. Lets keep the thread factual and professional.
Thank you,
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