Scowen

You are correct, these are generally considered to be fakes.

A.G. & co pieces are only found as bronze, silver & gold 1939 & the Kleinkaliber 1940 badges.

A.G. & co marked badges are very controversial.  Many believe them to be fake, the main reason being that so far no one has been able to identify who exactly A.G. & co were (if they existed during the period).

However the badges are not cast copies or made with old dies as there are die differences between the Poelatth & the AG pieces.  Both Poellath & the AG pieces are magnetic & they also have the same measurements....

So if they are fake then someone went to great lengths to make them the same. 

​Hi Joe,

No, it simply became Wehrmann from 1942 onwards....

Don

Lovely to see the silver grade Mike.

Thanks for posting it.

Don

Very nice indeed!

Thank you for sharing them with us.

Don

Welcome to the forum.

The badge you have is what is generally known as a "tinnie".  These are small badges sold to the public at various events to raise money, usually for the NSDAP.

John has explained this particular event in his first post above.

Thank you for posting it.

Don

​Good to hear from you again!!!

No just tombac.  I've only ever seen these years.  So far I have not seen a 1939.  They also came in bronze & silver grade, but these are very rare, much rarer than the gold.

Don

A new one for me too.

Thanks for posting it.

I thought that you may also like to see a pic of one in wear....

Found the images at last!

As you can see, a lot of the finish has rubbed off over the years....

I have one of these marked to Seiboth, Goblenz.  I do not have the image to hand at the moment, when I do I shall post it.

Cheers

Don

These are honour pins from the Freikorps von Epp.  Sorry, no ideas as to a value....

Don

Very impressive Robert

Very nice John.  For some reason I've never seem to have got around to getting any of these....

Don

Ok Robert, how about these....

I must admit that I've had it for many years, which is why it took me so long to find the images that I had on file.

No sorry, I've only this version....

D

Very nice Alec.  Sorry for my late reply, had trouble locating the images of my one

Here they are now.

Don

Thanks Alec.  Neff again....

Hi Alec,

Very nice tinnie. I've seen them a few times over the years but have no more info on them or the events I'm afraid as they are outside of my area of interest.

Thanks for showing it.

Don

I Remembered yesterday afternoon that I'd seen a related set somewhere, it's taken me ages to remember where..... Finally found it on Weitze's site for 750 euro.

Very nice John.

There is a tinnie with the same design on, here is a pic that I have of it in wear (at least it looks the same to me).

Cheers

Don

This is the Reichjugendsportsabzeichen. I believe the stickpin version was for boys & the brooch was for girls.

Cheers

Don

Very nice Robert. Thanks for posting it.

This is not a serial number it's just part of the maker mark of Christian Laur, 1790 is the year that the company was founded.

Not my area, sorry. Hopefully someone else can help....