First-Pattern SA Sports Badge

[Tom Yanacek]

Hi guy,

Here is a first-pattern SA Sports Badge that came home with me from the MAX Show. I never owned a first-pattern before so I was pleased to get this one. Hope you like it.

Best regards,
Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

It is made by Lauer of Nürnberg/Berlin and serial number 19081. Badge is completely non-ferrous. Wording on sword reverse is Eigentum d. Chefs d. Ausbildungswesens.

[kevin john]

Hi Tom, nice badge in good condition ,what other goodies did you bring back from the MAX Kevin.

[Br. James]

A beautiful example of an 'award copy' (numbered) of the First Issue SA Sport Badge, Bronze Grade. Congrats!

Br. James

[Tom Yanacek]

Thanks, Kevin!

Hi Tom, nice badge in good condition ,what other goodies did you bring back from the MAX Kevin.

Hi Kevin,

I sold fifteen items at the show and came home with seven things. Came home with two, five-place medal bars, a police six-place ribbon bar, an RAD Medal, first-pattern SA Sport Badge, an Assmann Luftwaffe Flak Badge, and an Imme & Sohn Luftwaffe Radio Operator/Air Gunner Badge.

I bought a nice Tannenberg tinnie at the show but I sold it the next day. Can't keep everything.

Best regards,
Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

Thank you!

A beautiful example of an 'award copy' (numbered) of the First Issue SA Sport Badge, Bronze Grade. Congrats!

Thanks, Br. James. After forty-four years of collecting this is the first, first-pattern SA Sport Badge for me.

Best regards,
Tom

[kevin john]

Hi Tom,well done ,was Br. James implying that your SA sports badge is not an original or was he just being sarcastic because in England we have a saying sarcasm is the lowest form of wit ,Kevin.

[Tom Yanacek]

... was Br. James implying that your SA sports badge is not an original....

Hi Kevin,

I don't think he was implying that at all.

Best regards,
Tom

[Br. James]

Tom is absolutely right -- I intended NO insinuation that this badge is other than genuine and original to the period. The 1st and the 2nd Issue of the SA Sport Badge were produced in two styles or grades, if you will: the Presentation style, which included a control number stamped to the reverse which was keyed to an Award Certificate that was presented with the badge, and a Private Purchase style, which was available to awardees for wear on additional uniforms. Examples of both of these styles of SA Sport Badges are genuine to the period; my use of the word "copy" was intended to indicate "style" or "type;" it was not meant to suggest that this badge was a fake or a phony of any sort.

The 3rd Issue of the SA Sport Badge series, known as the 'SA Military Defense Badge' as it was produced and awarded during the war years, was not manufactured with a control number on its reverse due to an effort to simplify wartime production, and the Award Certificate presented with this badge had no number linking the document to the badge.

With apologies for any misunderstanding...possibly caused by my use of 'American English!'

Br. James