New book - The Party Badge

[Dietrich Maerz]

B&D Publishing is proud to announce that the latest book in the series of scientific and well researched books is going to the printer soon and will be available end of August. The pre-publication sale with a lower price and free shipping within the lower states of the USA will start very soon.

The book The Party Badge by Jo Rivett is the most comprehensive account of the Party Badge, including the Symphatizer and Propaganda Badges of the NSDAP. Never before has this subject been tackled in such detail. The book clarifies the enormeous mistakes that can be found in all kind of previous publications and gives the collector an astonishing amount of information.
The book has over 500 pages and more than 2000 pictures, most of them in color, printed in the usual quality of B&D Publishing.

Dietrich

[Dietrich Maerz]

Index and a sample page.

[Dietrich Maerz]

Two more pages.

Please visit www.ironcross1939.com in the next weeks for the start of the pre-publication sale!

Dietrich

[Br. James]

Thanks for this heads-up, Dietrich -- this looks like it will be an important addition to any collector's library. Jo Rivett is a well-known name in our hobby; glad to see him publishing such a work. I look forward to receiving more information about this offering as it is available.

Br. James

[Heran]

Indeed it is a book to have. So looking forward to get it s soon it is on sale.

For sure, lot of Research done in that book...

Regards

Heran

[Jon Fish]

Wow, this is one to get!! can't wait, wow,wow,wow!

[petopoint]

It's Party (Badge) Time.

Looks to be another invaluable and fascinating book.
Judging by the excerpts, the sampled teasers have already whet my appetite for the Full Edition.

[ErichS]

Always great to see new reference books on the things that we collect and it will be a must have for me as well.

[Robert Jones]

Thank you for posting this notice Dietrich.

[pagannz]

Wow, this is one to get!! can't wait, wow,wow,wow!

Ditto

[der-hase-fee]

So that's what Jo Rivett has been up to the last couple years !

[Richard]

Looks like a must have and it will certainly be in my library. I do have one observation about the comparison of the double struck badge and the description of its creation with the image of a double struck coin for comparison. The description stating the planchet got stuck, moved a bit and then was struck again, is probably incorrect.

With coins a working hub is created which places an incuse image into the working die that will be used to strike the coins. The die usually needs multiple strikes and when the hub moves during this striking, the die winds up having a doubled image. So the actual working die has the doubled image hence when double die coins are created, they are not one off creations but several thousand may be struck with this die that has a doubled incuse image.

This happens often, mostly in so minimal of a misalignment, the doubling is hardly noticable unless magnified. It happened to a such a significant degree for the Lincoln cent in 1955, 1972 (obverse for both years) and 1983 (on the reverse) that the doubling is severe and evident without maginifcation.

In each case, there were thousands produced, which in the coin world still are few enough to cause rarity. Each doubled coin is an exact duplicate of the other, which would not be the case if the planchet had moved. Had the planchet moved, you would see doubling to different degrees and not identical and uniform on thousands of coins.

If it were a case where the actual planchet was stuck to the die, there would be no way for the planchet to move since, if it could move, it wouldn't be stuck. So in order for the doubling to occur, one of the dies (the one to which the planchet is not stuck) would actually need to move, which would be highly improbable. If the planched stayed in place and rotated to a degree, it would have rotated in relation to both dies and therefore both the obverse and reverse would show doubling.

I realize this may be a nit picky thing to point out this early in the game, but thought it worth mentioning. That is not to say the badges with doubled images were created in the same way as doubled image coins, but the probability exists.

Additionally if planchets are continually fed into the dies after each preceding planchet is struck, having a stuck planchet would mean two planchets would then be struck by the same set of dies. This happens in coins as well but is called brockage. For anyone interested in die errors, here is a link to the definition and explanation of some of the more common ones encountered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint-made_errors

With German attention to detail, it could well be that few working dies were created with doubled images due to quality control. As with every thing else, it appears at one time or another, some of these dies may have slipped through and struck badges. These were probably caught early in the manufacturing process so that few doubled image badges were produced. Additionally during the quality control process of badge finishing, there is a high likelyhood those badges which had doubled images were caught and relagated to the trash bin rather than released.

It would be interesting to see in what numbers the doubled image badges can be found, keeping in mind that with the finishing these badges received, these errors were easier to find and dispose of than in the manufacture of coins where tens or hundreds of millions are struck each year. In 1955 alone, over 330 million cents were struck at the Philidelphia mint (where the double die originated)which is many multiple times the number of NSDAP badges struck for the entire time of the Third Reich. It is estimated that of the 330 million, there were anywhere from 20-24 thousand double dies produced.
Richard V

[Wim Vangossum]

So that's what Jo Rivett has been up to the last couple years !

Yes, he putted a lot of work and research in this new bible of the enamel badges the last couple of years. And he also wanted to make a statement against people who sell fake stuff without any shame. Especially the high end dealers who think they can do everything because of their king status.

Is it not sad that researchers like him are banned from this forum.


Regards, Wim



Freedom is not for Free

[panzerguy]

Just a note...

Dear Richard, the author of this book kindly requests that you wait until
it is printed, and until you have read - and understood - the whole
"Oddities" chapter, before jumping to conclusions, and adding your opinion
to a subject that is covered in great detail, and that you are only able to
read a minute portion of at the moment. If afterwards, you still think that
your 5 cents are relevant, then feel free to expand on them. - Regards, J.R

[Richard]

Thanks JR. Admittedly I am jumping the gun before reading the entire chapter before offering my opinion which, most often is only worth the proverbial 2 cents. My apologies to the author.
Richard V