Gordon Williamson

Civil/Political Long Service

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Imperial Awards

Otto Schickle of Pforzheim. This combines the original 1938 pre-war catalogue with a 1940 wartime supplement.

Unfortunately for the conspiracy theorists, there is no mystery about this publication. It was bought from one of Helmut Weitze's site back in 2004. I bought it purely and simply because it identified the probable third maker of the "Zimmermann" type U-Boat Badge (three distinct types being known, two of which identifiable through marked examples as B H Mayer and Zimmermann, the third type always being unmarked).

Having got the information from it I needed on their KM badges, and having no great interest in the majority of items in it, I happily traded it for a nice U-Boat Badge whose value was greater than the catalogue. How many other hands it may have passed through since I traded it I neither know nor care.

In addition to the more "run-of-the-mill" stuff, Schickle offered the Knight's Cross, SS Long Service Medals with round suspension rings, Pour le Merite, and the Legion Condor Tank Badge amongst a rather wide range of Spanish Civil War stuff.

Social Welfare Awards

NSDAP Long Service

Wehrmacht Long Service

Flower Wars Medals

Spanish Crosses

KM War Badges

Army War Badges

Wound Badge and West Wall Medal

Statement regarding the firms markings. Note the use of the term Nachbildung to describe retail copies rather than official awards.

Advertisement in the catalogue for Dr Doehle's book

Steinhauer & Lück, Lüdenscheid

These pages are from a 1940/41 catalogue. I don,t have the full catalogue unfortunately. This one had come apart at the spine and only a few loose pages were available.

It is interesting in confirming the LDO code as L/16 and referring to the pieces so marked as "Nachbildungen" or "Copies" as opposed to official awards.

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Ribbon bars and the various metal mounting plates

Various buttonhole miniatures and ribbon mounts

A farily extensive range of stickpin miniatures

Imperial Flight Badges and Wehrmacht Long Service Awards

More Imperial. The U-Boat badge is described as hollow .

Civil/Political Long Service Awards

Imperial Awards

Pre-war "Flower" Campaign medals and Austrian awards.

Steinhauer & L?ck, L?denscheid

Also reprinted in recent years and still available if you look around, the S&L 50th Anniversary Catalogue. It often shows up on Ebay. This catalogue has excellent quality illustrations. Note the Steinhauer logo and the claim "This sign stands for quality"