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Gentlemen, let’s look on an article about the history of the Walter Schott submarine war badge for a collector's magazine. Actually it’s an incomplete pre-version with some orthographic errors here. You can download the pdf here. Thanks for reading, any thoughts greatly appreciated. Best; Flyingdutchman
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Michael, Ive sent you a pm with a link to my article draft. Try to find a badge with the green color still present. There are original badges without that color, sometimes misinterpreted by collectors as undesired patina and cleaned away. Yes, the missing “t” was most likely a die flaw because it changes over time. Beside that the appearance of the maker mark is consistent, which helps us today to understand more of these scarce and desirable items. Best; Hermann
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Michael, unfortunately I have to say that this is also a copy, it is even much worse than the first one. In an article about these badges I wrote the following: In order to make a direct comparison possible I'm posting here photos of one of my badges. It won't be easy to find an original badge with the green color because, as mentioned above, they are quite rare. Nevertheless good luck! Best; Hermann
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Gentlemen, there's a nice video about the early German Naval daggers by Tom Wittmann on YouTube: Tom Wittmann early German naval daggers Tom captures these early pieces very well. A few nitpickings, nothing really serious: - The first daggers he shows are Prussian pieces that were probably carried also on the ship Amazone.. One of these daggers, the one with the bent crossguard arm, seems to have got a replaced scabbard. It is likely the scabbard of a later dagger of the 1848 pattern. You can see this dagger at minute 16:39. - Basically he forgets to mention here that in 1
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Gentlemen, lets look on a scarce and for some a little bit not that nice bird, however a genuine example coming from a time with many difficulties for Europe and Germany. Most likely the dagger started his career as a 1919 Pattern dagger with a black scabbard. The blade was once longer and therefore deliberately shortened. It’s shiny nickel plated and probably a Damascus steel blade, impossible to judge coz only the dagger gods know for what weapon that blade was originally made. Its not a crude weapon, handwork is there and there’s a perfect dagger to scabbard fit.
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Coin hoard found in Iraqi desert 2005
Flyingdutchman replied to bigjarofwasps's topic in Coins & Commemorative Medallions
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