Solid Back BLACK Wound badge....

[Tyler Ramsey]

Has anyone here ever seen a solid back Black wound badge?
I thought its weird how all of the BWB are hollow back and no solid back. Have you ever seen one or heard of one?
Thanks ALLOT!!!

[Vadim K]

Tyler, there ain't no such animal. These were very common awards so there was no point in increasing cost of production by making them solid-backed. The reverse is supposedly true, where at the end of war they would coat hollow-back black badges with silver or gold paint and award them as those grades (they were kinda busy with other things back then... )

[Tyler Ramsey]

Ah, Thanks ALLOT for answering my question!!!

[Chrvip68]

Vadim is right, but you can find time to time 'bizzarre' and uncommon WB's, ie: zink hollow WB's instead of steel or brass etc.
Then why not a solid black WB?

So here one SOLID black WB from my collection, i know and perhaps someone painted black postwar but on the other hand why not painted silver or better gold to increase the value?

[Chrvip68]

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[Chrvip68]

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[Vadim K]

An interesting badge... Who knows what this is really though, the paint looks very much like it was applied post-war.

[Pieter Verbruggen]

There is a nice SOLID black wound badge .....I believe it is dated 20july1944

Pieter.

[Pieter Verbruggen]

But without kidding....solid zink black wound badges exist.
Pieter.

[Chrvip68]

Thanks Pieter for your comments, i thought i was only me believing on them

Two examples i have seen so far, 'mine' and another one same as mine made of feinzink, the typical late war production w/o the maker marks.