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    Identification help on DLV badge wanted!

    I saw this for me very unusal DLV badge/tinnie, can anyone tell me more about it? Strange but interesting design......




    #2
    Personally, I don't think it is the DLV you are thinking of. If it is, I have never seen the bee symbol used.

    Perhaps it could be another organisation with the intials DLV, such as the Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag.

    Best,
    Toby.

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      #3
      thanks for the input Toby...............

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        #4
        Indeed, the "DLV" initials are just coincidence; this bee has nothing to do with the Deutscher Luftsportverband. It is the official membership badge for the Deutscher Landfrauenverband. ("Landfrauen" = lit. "country women", generally meaning women living in rural areas, especially farmer's wives and daughters.)

        Please see here for the manufacturer's website:
        http://www.greifenkunst.de/showpage.php?SiteID=16

        While the direct forerunners of this organization have been in existence since 1898, the DLV has existed under this particular name since 1948, while the Greifenkunst firm - according to their website - has been the licensed manufacturer of this badge since 1953. So, the badge itself is definitely post-war.

        Nonetheless, the bee symbol has apparently been used by the Landfrauen organizations from the very start. See here for an image of Elisabet Boehm, the foundress of the first such association; notice the bee jewellery she is wearing:

        http://www.landfrauen-intern2.de/typ...b883f86d36.jpg
        Last edited by HPL2008; 07-29-2008, 01:31 PM.

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          #5
          Thanks for the great info on the badge

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