HJ Distinguished Foreigners Badge

[Stan]

HJ Badge for distinguished foreigners

Ron,

That's gorgeous too

Stan

[glock26]

Thanks for the info Stan.

Any chance of a scan of the pic.

And another very nice example Ron.

cheers, del.

[glock26]

Looking for some advice please gents.

Had this up on the estand but nothing, nada, nil interest in it.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=524484

Have I priced it too high?
Is my post count too low?
Is this a bad time to sell?

Any input greatly appreciated.

cheers, del.

[stuart a.]

hi del

like i said in my previous post on this thread, its a rare badge but a rare badge that is not highly sought after, if you had a ss badge as rare as this it would sell in seconds, the hj has allways been a small collecting circle and very few non hj collectors will pay the sort of money this badge warrants for £2100 you can buy a lot of heer , ss badges daggers etc, you could have bought a dkig for just over £1000.
i have allways believed the prices asked for these to be high though like i said from a hj perspective i can buy a nice reichssieger for £1000, is the badge you have worth 2 reichssiegers i dont personally think so.

[glock26]

thanks for the input stuart.

what would be a fair price for it, in your opinion?

cheers, del.

[Garry M.]

I've always found the discussions on these badges quite interesting. 1. There is almost no information on them and certainly none which tells us what they are supposed to look like (close up). 2. They look pretty easy to fake. However, and despite points one and two these badges are instantly proclaimed to be real if they are brown, have no MM and look old. This is then followed by the wheeling out of a vet-obtained badge as in this thread and others (no disrespect meant to those owners) and bingo!; we have another real Distinguished Foreigner badge. This one could be authentic for all I know and I hope it is but as I say, my point was more general.

[mametz]

Nice badge but a tough sell, i notice you compared the value to a nice
SS dagger. I collect HJ but i would not pay no way near these prices
for one of these. Ask most collectors what they would prefer a SS
dagger or this badge
Regards
Mametz

[glock26]

can i just say that with regards value i was only going by what i could find.

e.g.

wietze has one at 3200 euro
and there is one in heuskens 1997 catalogue at 4000 euro

that's all i could find, so pitched it well below those.

but no matter, i'll keep it in the collection and enjoy it.

thanks to all for the input.

cheers, del.

[stuart a.]

hi memetz. my point was not comparing the price to an ss dagger, what i was saying is that for the money asked for these badges you can buy some very nice pieces as i think they are very overpriced for what they are, given the option between a cased dkig and this badge 99% of people would go with the dkig and still have change

[der-hase-fee]

can i just say that with regards value i was only going by what i could find.

e.g.

wietze has one at 3200 euro
and there is one in heuskens 1997 catalogue at 4000 euro

that's all i could find, so pitched it well below those.

but no matter, i'll keep it in the collection and enjoy it.

thanks to all for the input.

cheers, del.

There's one offered by Philipp for 2,450 Euro.

These have been sitting for loooooooooooooong.

So keeping it, it is.