Hi,
Given that the vast majority of Wound Badges have needle pins and some of the better repros have coke-bottled pins (raised L/63 and L/14 examples), I thought I'd give some of the less common but imo genuine variants a showing. So for interest's sake, the wide-pinned Wound Badge variants from my collection are imaged below. Keep in mind that I'm only aiming at 2nd (standard) pattern 1939 Wound Badges and I've used Silver grades as examples
Top Left - the standard and relatively common wide-pinned "30", this example in plated tombak. As an aside regarding condition, this one has been cleaned (none of the others have been though).
Top Right - a variation of the wide-pinned "30". Note that this pin tapers from top to bottom whereas the other example is constant width. This example is either nickel-silver or very heavily plated tombak.
Middle Left - an L/17. Very heavily plated tombak.
Middle Right - an L24 (raised marking, no slash). Semi-hollow zinc example. This example also has the block hinge common on EK1s. (Thanks again for this one J!).
Bottom Left - an L/52 (stamped in a box, center of the reverse). Zinc badge. Note the hinge/hingeplate and catch/catchplate are recessed and exactly the same hardware as found on their 20 marked DKs.
Bottom Right - the uncommon and slightly oversized variant with the "Wernstein-like" hinge. This example is stamped L/60 (differing thoughts as to whether pre- or post-war stamped). Plated tombak.
If anybody has other variants they'd like to share, please post away!
Regards
Mike K
Given that the vast majority of Wound Badges have needle pins and some of the better repros have coke-bottled pins (raised L/63 and L/14 examples), I thought I'd give some of the less common but imo genuine variants a showing. So for interest's sake, the wide-pinned Wound Badge variants from my collection are imaged below. Keep in mind that I'm only aiming at 2nd (standard) pattern 1939 Wound Badges and I've used Silver grades as examples
Top Left - the standard and relatively common wide-pinned "30", this example in plated tombak. As an aside regarding condition, this one has been cleaned (none of the others have been though).
Top Right - a variation of the wide-pinned "30". Note that this pin tapers from top to bottom whereas the other example is constant width. This example is either nickel-silver or very heavily plated tombak.
Middle Left - an L/17. Very heavily plated tombak.
Middle Right - an L24 (raised marking, no slash). Semi-hollow zinc example. This example also has the block hinge common on EK1s. (Thanks again for this one J!).
Bottom Left - an L/52 (stamped in a box, center of the reverse). Zinc badge. Note the hinge/hingeplate and catch/catchplate are recessed and exactly the same hardware as found on their 20 marked DKs.
Bottom Right - the uncommon and slightly oversized variant with the "Wernstein-like" hinge. This example is stamped L/60 (differing thoughts as to whether pre- or post-war stamped). Plated tombak.
If anybody has other variants they'd like to share, please post away!
Regards
Mike K
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