Rosenberg

Sorry for the delay......now who of you been a good guesser?JT wins as it is a GWL,but Scott and MM might have been mislead by the case....had to take bad light photos to diminish a mirror-effect of the eagle

Thanks for the moving Paul.

Been long time since my last eagle landed,finally managed to get this one here after a fool tried to raise the price to a ridiculous level(curse him for that )

Just a few days earlier than the last one

Very nice.I envy you guys for the Saar marked badges! Don,there seem to be so many badges designated for the Helferin,would they wear just one at a time?

Robert,I believe it to be early,too.Unfortunately one will never know where these items originally came from.

Regards

No clue on this one......

That Munich version is truly awesome! That is a lucky find!!!

Regards

Thanks,Pat and again Warlord.I will try get a hold on that book of yours.

Regards

Warlord,

thanks a lot for this extensive overview of the various types.I would have never been able to retrieve this information.

Regards

This could be the document to the award...seems it is a part of the Red Cross that provides services of water rescue

http://www.wasserwacht-burglengenfeld.de/c...dschein_alt.htm

Nick,

it is a plain case.I have no idea if the case was coming with the pin when issued.That is one of the questions in my book.There seems to be little to no info on minis and cases.

Thanks,Don. I have problems myself finding info on it.Huesken is stating it in one edition as the 3rd version of the Freiluftballonf?hrer badge and in our bible it is the first type,which is a printingerror IMO. There were only about 240 pilots in the early thirties and with the DLV being incorporated in the NSFK a few years later this number shouldn?t have increased much in the mean.Here is another shot of it...

Who touches something like that?

Any MMarked ones around?

After a while in the off I have found something interesting again that I want to share with you.

Thanks for explaining the meaning of the badges.

I was just trying to be polite...

Thanks Eric.I agree,not seen before.

I must correct the named location,while the Stammwerk was and is still located at Wolfsburg the Vorwerk was located at Braunschweig,a city near-by.

If you are able to read German this is an interesting paper on the topic...

http://www.bwpat.de/ausgabe9/kipp_bwpat9.pdf

the pic...

If for nobody else then I believe this to be of interest for Mr.Lynn....I enjoyed most of what you posted,so this is a lil return...nothing much,but I have found this paper sheet among others today around my place.Never paid much attention to it,but it actually is an application for an apprentice as lock-smith with the Volkswagenwerk,more precise the Vorwerk,the pre-factory where the young boys were trained for their later position within the VW Stammwerk.Two things make the Vorwerk special,first for the unique way the kids were prepared for their professional life.Boys from all over Germany were coming to Wolfsburg to live at the campus of the Vorwerk.Their days were strictly organised and the results of their final skill test were always among the top ones.The utilized combination of practical and theoretical lectures was invented here and is still being used till today.2nd special thing is that all Vorwerkers belonged to their own HJ Bann.Enjoy the pic.....

The company is spelled with ?E?not an ?O?. ARAD doesnt make sense either.

Thanks for the reply.Is there a sure way to tell either way?

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