Sports badges

[Troy Tempest]

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place for this! Is there much of a market in fake sports badges that anyone knows of? Specifically the first model, the DRA type? Even the later DRL types, or at least the first one, 33-37 with no swastika, or would it be reasonable to think that most are legit? Thanking you!

[speedytop]

Hi,

it is the wrong and the correct place for this .

Your question is good for Imperial Germany, Weimarer Republic, Third Reich and Germany post WW II.

Have a look at these threads:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=874

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14509

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=16799

I can now add some information about a described but not shown sports badge, post 41:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14509&st=40

"He did not show the picture, but he stated, that there is a DRL sports badge without swastika in the Third Reich, between DRA and DRL with swastika.

Than he described a sports badge from Wernstein Jena without a swastika, and the swastika was not filed off. It was made in this design original in the dies, no POW denazified it, no jewelers hand work.

I have never seen this piece."

Meanwhile I have seen this piece (I had contact with the German collector), it is a denazified DRL with swastika :

Yes, some copies exist, but most badges are real.

Regards

Uwe

[Troy Tempest]

Thank you Uwe!