Golden Party Badge With Pin Repair

[RonR]

Here for your review and comments is a Golden Party Badge that has had the pin replaced.

Still a very nice badge.

Front View:

[RonR]

Reverse:

[ErichS]

Looks good to me and a period replaced pin. Nice early number!

[Panzer Rob]

Looks good to me and a period replaced pin. Nice early number!

Just curious... is it common to see the membership number so off-center in relation to the back of the badge?

Rob

[Andre Murti]

Why so is a lot of the GPB with repair pins? Really Deschler could not make a strong pin?

[Wim Vangossum]

Why so is a lot of the GPB with repair pins? Really Deschler could not make a strong pin?

To answer your question: It happens very often that the pin broke off. I think civilians changed clothes and every time, in a clumsy way, tryed to put their badge one each jacket. It was an important award, so those who were legible to wear, wear them as much as possible by public events. According to forum member SJL, the often looses their badges to.

Regards, Theo

[Andre Murti]

To answer your question: It happens very often that the pin broke off. I think civilians changed clothes and every time, in a clumsy way, tryed to put their badge one each jacket. It was an important award, so those who were legible to wear, wear them as much as possible by public events. According to forum member SJL, the often looses their badges to.

Regards, Theo

Theo greetings. I think, it can concerns to 25 mm. badges. Big badges 30 mm. usually carried on the service uniform. Also it was removed from it seldom. Surprises the general quality of manufacturing.The main party award, and the pin as on a cheap badge.

[Sonderkommando]

Hi Ron,
A nice original badge with a very neat and tidy repair... Usually after this sort of repair, the badges lose their gold finish and the front disc falls off and 9 times out of 10 is replaced slightly off centre.

The engraved number is correct also for the badge, as you can see the horizontal "file" marks which is typical to the engraved series of GPB.

Any name from the number yet?



Brett

[Sonderkommando]

Just to add a footnote to the horizontal "file" marks...

I have always believed that the engraved numbers on the GPB were on replacement badges...i.e. someone lost their badge and ordered another so Deschler engraved the number onto an already completed badge for the order.

This also explains the file marks as well......
Any badge that had a mistake made when stamping the number on the back was re-worked by welding/filling the faulty number and then filed level again and then of course completed with the gilding, pin, centre, etc.

These re-worked badges were then kept as replacement badges by Deschler for when an order was placed for a missing badge. The appropriate number was then engraved onto the badge and sent to the customer.

This is my theory only and of course may not be the case at all, but it explains the file marks, engraved numbers, etc.

It would be good if one of these engraved badges could be x-rayed to really see if there are traces of another number on the back of the badge....


Cheers,
Brett

[RonR]

Brett,

Thanks for that information.

Have not been able to identify the original owner.

Any ideas?

Best regards,

[Panzer Rob]

Just to add a footnote to the horizontal "file" marks...

I have always believed that the engraved numbers on the GPB were on replacement badges...i.e. someone lost their badge and ordered another so Deschler engraved the number onto an already completed badge for the order.

This also explains the file marks as well......
Any badge that had a mistake made when stamping the number on the back was re-worked by welding/filling the faulty number and then filed level again and then of course completed with the gilding, pin, centre, etc.

These re-worked badges were then kept as replacement badges by Deschler for when an order was placed for a missing badge. The appropriate number was then engraved onto the badge and sent to the customer.

This is my theory only and of course may not be the case at all, but it explains the file marks, engraved numbers, etc.

It would be good if one of these engraved badges could be x-rayed to really see if there are traces of another number on the back of the badge....


Cheers,
Brett

Brett-

You raise some very good points that could very well explain the file marks and the engraving anomalies. I too would be interested in a very high-resolution scan or a microscopic examination of the back side of some of these re-worked badges. However, would an X-ray actually show any detail?

Rob

[Panzer Rob]

Brett,

Thanks for that information.

Have not been able to identify the original owner.

Any ideas?

Best regards,

Ron-

Check with Robert McDivitt: http://www.militariaresearch.com/

Rob

[Von Hoth]

very nice. I want one really bad.

thanks for sharing.

[Sonderkommando]

Hi Rob,
I believe an x-ray might show something as I know that sometimes when stolen engines from cars have the serial numbers altered that an x-ray will reveal the original number that was stamped on the engine block.

It would be interesting to see what would be revealed.


Cheers,
Brett

[Sonderkommando]

I checked my numbers list and I have nothing listed for between 8872 and 8884.



Cheers,
Brett