Uber rare Wiking Tab

[Felix]

Hi,

posted by NickG, a new number !
"380323". Sold on Ebay in 2006 for a ridiculous low price.

See You

Vince

I remember that auction. It was in a riker mount with other insignias. I was just a bit too late and missed bidding...

Thats life!

Cheers
//Felix

[Barzini]

my contribution

[Barzini]

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[Steve0]

Very nice Barzini thanks for sharing - was'nt this the tab previously owned by Dave Davies (380523) ?

Cheers

Steve

[Barzini]

Yes you are right, I bought it from him a few years back

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

wow thanks Barzini for posting better pics of the "famous" 380523 !
Nice one !

See You

Vince

[Eyedea794]

Thought I’d share my new pick up on this forum

[nutmeg]

I was offered this one recently in a small lot of Dachau insignia from a vet estate but was unable to make the buy. What's one of these worth anyway? Sorry this is the only photos I have.

[RobertE]

I think Eyedea, the poster above this post, picked it up so can probably answer that question.

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

thanks Eyedea794 and nutmeg for providing pictures of a new drakkar tab !

So for we have now 7 tabs with numbers, for a total of 11 tabs (some tabs are now in other collections) :

manayunkman 379967
Eyedea794 380412
all1knew 380512
D Davies 380523
Waffen-SS Uniforms & Insignia 381280
Alan Wilson 386661
Sayle E 386713

relicstashr 269698 (fake sticker ?)

Steve0 -
Roberte -
Weitze -

See You

Vince

[NickG]

Amazing. I remember 380523 well...It was sold on eBay in 2006 for $250 dollars along with a bunch other insignia in a group
if I remember correctly.
I got outbid...because I wasn’t around to up my bid and it went to DDavies
who later sold it to member Barzini a few years ago when DDavies sold his collection.
(Apparently now starting a new collection as I understandi it...)
380523 was an amazing score at the time...

[Dmv]

So if we take the highest known number minus the lowest known, we have a production run of minimal 6746 pieces?

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

it would be nice to find tabs between 381 Tausend and 386 Tausend to confirm that.
Maybe that two batches were done ?
379 Tausend > 381 Tausend and then around 386 Tausend ?

We still don't know if the tab was planned for the whole "Wiking" division, or only for the Norwegian volunteers / "Norge" Regiment.

See You

Vince

[Askold]

Amazing. I remember 380523 well...It was sold on eBay in 2006 for $250 dollars along with a bunch other insignia in a group
if I remember correctly.
I got outbid...because I wasn’t around to up my bid and it went to DDavies
who later sold it to member Barzini a few years ago when DDavies sold his collection.
(Apparently now starting a new collection as I understandi it...)
380523 was an amazing score at the time...

Yes I remember that too. One of the ultimate Ebay scores in my books

[nutmeg]

So.... what's the going price on one of these ? If another pops up in a Dachau hoard I want to offer enough.