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Sweet...... Thanks for showing it. Cheers Don

Very nice Robert. I'm afraid that I do not have the small version. I do have the standard & cap badge type though. Cheers Don

Thank you Gentlemen. I know the tinnie you mean Richard, I saw it a few times when I was looking for the Sachsen one. As to the scanner, I use an Epson Perfection 1670, the software that came with it is very good. I scan at 1200 dpi & then use PaintShop pro to resize down to posting size. I'm not a tech guy Richard, but it sounds as if the memory that your machine uses to store info while it scans isn't large enough to transfer the image. Ask in the tech area of the forum here http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showforum=158 , someone with better knowledge may be able to help. Cheers Don

Here's the second SA I forgot about.

detail

The portrait.

I was rooting about in my box of tinnies the other day & came across two SA's I forgot that I had. Here's the first, I picked this up as I had a picture of one in wear....

I would imagine so Robert, looking at the blunt end. Cheers Don

Yes Joe, I remember that he also had one. Detlev also shows one in his last tome. Cheers Don

Robert, Unfortunately, I imagine like yourself, I've only familiar with this badge from H?sken's unknown section (Page 364 Tafel 21). I've seen it offered occasionally but never had the opertunity to hold one yet. They appear well made, how does it feel to you? Is it heavy? Th?ringia seem to have had a habit of issuing service type badges (assuming that they are all original), you may remember this one that I've never really discovered what it was for http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9796 & then there was this one as well http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11006 For what it's worth, I like the look of yours, it's well designed & made. Cheers Don

Joe, Below are the badges listed in Hüsken as Opferring "Freiheitssbund" der NSDAP. "a" & "b" are shown in this thread, I also have "d" the Gau Hessen-Nassau. We see "e" quite often but I haven't yet found one for a price I wish to pay. The others I haven't seen offered for sale yet. Cheers Don

I've no idea which, if either, came first. This last one is the hardest of the pair to find, but if you check your Hüsken you will see there are other designs still that are equally difficult to find. Cheers Don

That's the same type of caliper I use. Cheers Don

The second also came from the same source, & has some imperfections to the obverse with air bubbling in the white enamel causing a couple of pin point sized holes. Reverse is totally unmarked apart from Ges.Gesch on the pin plate. However the distinct pattern in the pebbling under the red enamel has the same peculiarities as the marked version, so it must have come from the same die.

I've been searching for one of these for years & then like the proverbial number 8 bus two came along together....... The first one has the wording "Kreis Jena-Stadtroda" & is marked with a manufacturs symbol which has been suggested may be for William Hobacher.....

The one marked Reichsberufwettkampf der Deutscher Jugend isn't exactly a tinnie as such, it's more of a participation badge given to all the entrants of the competition. In later years the participation badges became more elaborate & the winners of the contest were awarded the Kreissieger, Gausieger & Reichssieger badges which I'm sure you've seen, with the eagles holding the DAF cogwheel with the H.J. Diamond on it with the dates 1938, 1939 & 1944. I'll move your thread to the tinnie section where you will probably get a better response for the other tinnies in the picture. Cheers Don

Got him!! Thanks Pete.

Sorry about that Pete. Can you remember roughly what pagem it's on? If so I'll go & delete it. Cheers Don

I've brought these Leipzig fair tinnies together.

Indeed, very interesting, thanks for sharing it. Cheers Don

Thanks Medalnet. I do not know much about this badge, however I would strongly expect to see an RZM mark & number on the reverse. What do you think Xen? Cheers Don

I've seen some sell for as much as 400 - 500 euro, but the more common ones less. Cheers Don

Nice badge Pete. I can't find out any info on these badges to indicate what they were for. My original thinking was that they were the "event" badge, much like a tinnie. However they come with & without the oak leaf surround, & there's evidence to show that they may well have come in silver as well as gold.... So perhaps not a tinnie type badge after all. I was sceptical about them but if you check out post #2 you will see that I got 2 of these in with a grouping I purchased sometime ago. Using the documents I obtained the other day, I was able to ascertain that all of the 5 large Meisterschütze badges were indeed awarded to the same man, so it is possible that these 2 were originally part of the grouping & not "thrown in" later. Is your one magnetic? Cheers Don

Nothing at all on the rev

That is a little one, what is it 18mm? Mine's the standard size.