WolfgangAmadeus

Ah excellent to know! Thank you Gavin and Paul.  The decoration on this omsa page (http://www.omsa.org/view-image/?imageid=4893&catid=590) threw me a bit, as the stone looks enamelled. 

Is there any chance I could email you a picture of the medallion I'm working on Gavin? I am leaning towards reproduction but would appreciate your thoughts. 

Please let me know! 

Hi Gavin, 

First off, loved your book. Found it very helpful in my research of the Type I badges. How can you tell this is a Rothe reproduction? 

On 18/02/2017 at 01:00, drclaw said:

 

Regarding the First Type First Class Third Grade image above, it's a Rothe reproduction made in the 1960s. They occasionally crop up at auction. A certain auction house rather disingenuously labels them as "extremely rare of Austrian manufacture" or something along that line.