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Mijke is correct Chris. In fact, off the top of my head, I do not recollect ever seeing a badge that was specifically intended for a woman being issued with a stickpin. All the nurse & RADwJ badges are brooches. Someone will correct me I'm sure if I am mistaken.... A lovely piece you have found there Joe. I do like these marine bund eagles. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Don

Hi Joe, A hard piece to find with that maker, thanks for showing it. Cheers Don

Very nice Robert. I've never been able to find out exactly what this badge was for, a member's badge of some sort? or maybe an honour or memorial badge maybe? or just something sold to the public?.......... However I can tell you a little about the importance of the Rhinebahn in the NSDAP history; Otto Liederley, General Director of the Rheinbahn (who interestingly was the chairman of the NSDAP investigating committee brought in to investigate the previous General Director who had forced to resign) placed the company at the party's disposal and in October 1933, the Nazi salute was made obligatory for all Rheinbahn employees, who faced disciplinary action if they refused to comply. The canteen at the central depot was converted into a meeting room & was the point of departure for the First of May marches. In 1937 the 'Working People's Exhibition' was held in Düsseldorf & the Rheinbahn operated a mini railway through the exhibition, and the carriages were pulled by an express train locomotive on a scale of 1:5. It was reported that more than 7 million people travelled to the exhibition in & 5 million took a trip on the mini railway. Cheers Don

Some more nice pieces there. As a side note you may have noticed the different shape pin plate on the M1/158 (long & narrow with crimping). This was the favoured type of fixing plate for this company, Karl Pichl Innsbruck, & their sister company Alois Klammer, also of Innsbruck. In this case it's a good way to authenticate one of their pieces.... Cheers Don

Hi John, Thank you for confirming my suspicians..... I thought the price seemed too good to be true Cheers Don

Sorry, ran out of room.... Here's the gold.

Another fine piece Pete, & yes it belongs here. A considerable number of these Lienz badges have turned up on the market in the last two years & I suspect that a "hoard" has been found in an old Schützen haus. I DO NOT believe that they are fakes, although I do suspect that they have been reconditioned, i.e. cleaned up & repainted etc, although I have no proof of this. They are magmetic & I do not think that the fakers would bother using ferrous metal. It is just too hard & needs very high temperatures to work with to get the sort of detail we are seeing here. Here are my three, I still need the gold with oakleaves.... Cheers Don

Very nice Pete, I do like these little flags... Cheers Don

Indeed a nice piece, there are plenty of "Frau" pieces to collect.... You should have fun finding them. Welcome to the forum. Cheers Don

I know that this is probably the wrong forum for this but I thought that the luft guys would have a better idea on this. Can anyone tell me whether this is a good piece please? It's outside my field. I'm afraid that these are the only images that I have. Thanks Don

Thanks for the reminders Pete. What do you think, should we combine the threads into one? These aren't strictly tinnies though.... Some nice pieces Sergey. Here are a couple of different ones: First a Nürnberg honour pin. Second a variant of the Badischer Sängerbund, marked 800. It's not as bright as it looks, that is due to the glare from the scanner. I'm always a little sceptical of badges & pins that have a Swaz added to them as it could have been done at anytime. And last another item with an added Swastika, which has been riveted on through a small hole. The badge itself is heavy & magnetic so it probably took some time to drill the hole through the centre of the circle. The question is when was it added? There is some enamel damage to the Swaz. Cheers Don

Here is mine.....

A nice couple of examples there Robert, thank you for posting them. The Paulmann & Crone is especially well marked & I agree with your estimation that the second example is likely to be Stübbe. Cheers Don

Thanks for sharing it with us Mel, nice to see another. As to the numbers, there is speculation amongst collectors as to what exactly they are for. Some feel that they are manufacturer numbers, as in something like an LDO number. Others feel that they are simply a die or planchette number so that if there was a fault on the finished product then they would lknow which die was damaged. Cheers Don

Finally, there was also a tinnie which was totally devoid of any Swastikas either to the obverse or reverse. This was slightly larger than the bigger member ship badge. Here's a pic of the three together.

The badges in detail, I think that you will find the reverses very interesing........ I've lightened the colour etc to the reverse of the larger pin to try & show these details....

The membership card....

A nice ribbon you have there Robert. I'm sure that you are already aware, but for other members who do not know, Martin Luther was a priest & professor of theology, who was born in 1483. He also wrote a great deal on anti semitism The Volksmissionarischen Bewegung were big on Martin Luther's preachings, here are some items you may like to see.....

Detail of the embossed cover....

I see that you have the "hellgoldfarben" or bright gold version, very nice. These came in two finishes, hellgoldfarben & altgoldfarben which look aged (the version I have).... On a different note here is an Urkunde presenting the newly created Reichsbund badge to the Vereinsleiter in recognition of his service & contributions.... It's dated Sept 1938, so now we know when the badge was introduced. The front cover is embossed with an image of the badge, I'll included a close up scan of that. Cheers Don

A nice find Robert, thanks for posting it. I swear that I have the gold version of this somewhere but for the life of me I cannot find the scans. Next time I have the enamel box out I will have a sort through to see if I am dreaming . Cheers Don

I've no idea Robert.... Lovely pin though..

I was thinking similar thoughts Pete. There's also the Scharnhorst Bund, they used a white shield/black cross with a crown in the centre. You are correct re the "A.D." pin, see post 33. Cheers Don

Another, this time with uniform....

I thought that I would post a couple of "in wear" pictures.... Cheers Don