Hollow silver wound badge...need help!

[BUZZER]

Hi guys,

I would like to show You hollow silver badge, it looks quite good for me, but...like always I would be grateful for Your opinion about it.

Regards,
Pawel

[JamesWoodward]

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Looks like a recoloured Black one, but i could be wrong, lets see what others have to say
Or possibly a Rare Assman?

[Hans N]

A stripped black one IMO

[wehrpasswilly]

Hollow SWB

please see the following thread regarding my example

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=561540

I honestly believe that these do exist (albeit very rare)

[BUZZER]

I can't see Your link mate...


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[wehrpasswilly]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=561540

This is still hanging around I believe - do a search on strange BWB/SWB/GWB

[vonStubben]

I have never seen a hollow "silver" WB unless it was totally stripped of it's black paint, but it is definately covered with spots and patches of verdigris which means it, or at least the finish, has a decent nickle content (and it's not artifically applied), and since it does not have the reverse hardware for it to have been made by Assmann I think that maker can be ruled out too, so, bottom line is that this badge will have to be sorted out by truely knowledgeable WB collectors who know them inside and out.

[Hans N]

Hollow Silver Wb´s do excist but this one is not one of them.

[teryjaki]

A very small number of pressed silver badges were thought to be made by the firm of Schickle, which resulted in the loss of his LDO license. Some theories also suggest a few late war gold and silver badges being made from pressed badges (originally intended to be painted black). Again, because a pressed badge in silver or gold violated the terms of an LDO license it is speculated that these badges were either protoypes (made for consideration by the National Material Control Office - Reichzeugmeisterei) for issuing consideration or were made in a last ditch effort to fill contracts during the material shortages at war's end. If the later if true, then RZM obviously was no longer in control of manufacuring at war's end and firms were doing whatever they could to fill contracts and get paid.

[Hans N]

There are many speculations and theories about why Schickle lost it´s license. Presenting proof to support them is harder though.

Both Silver and Gold hollows does exist but why and when is another matter.

Here is one that i have

[Hans N]

The next are my 2 Assmanns

[Hans N]

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[Hans N]

A Silver plated 127 that i got a few weeks back

[Hans N]

This one could be mistaken as a Silver but it´s infact a silver based badge that was oxydized black

[Hans N]

And then we have the 81´s as well but personally i don´t beleave in these