Sergeant 08

Paul, not easy to find a nice original Austrian Sturmtrupp badge, but no "mission impossible".

Question is, how you can find out the difference? The difference between a cut out from the oval and a cut out of a skull, that was directly sewed to the sleeve in past?? Most officer photos shows directly sewed skulls on sleeves without oval. But I think those skulls had a border of field grey material, too. Up to now I have it not in my hands for an final answer.

Thanks Robin! It looks very similar to the so called "Rastatt skull officer pattern". The only difference seems to be the field-gray cloth oval. They sewed my skull directly to the sleeve. I think both skulls were unifom removed.

This badge was already posted in this thread a few months before. I could manage to get it for my collection.

Thanks Chip! Such attic discoveries are rarer and rarer today. But it is still out there.

From the same source. A collector saved it before an old lady could throw it away in trash. All objects came from her father who was soldier in ww1 and he was member in "Der Wehrwolf - Bund deutscher Männer und Frontkrieger" later.

Chip, I had the same question, when I have seen it first time. It came with other Wehrwolf originals from an attic find in Saxony and it was never in a collection before. Got some other things from that find, too. It was already posted in other forums and all buckle experts liked it. The buckle details are fine and it was confirmed as an untouched original. The collector experts explained the condition with the different materials of buckle body / roundel and the adverse storage conditions during last 80 years.

My best skull find during last months.

Let us play a game! Schimmel, Totenkopf und Kanone! Made for soldiers during the world war.

You are a real South Park fan.

You must open your mind for new ideas!

Robin, how about collecting Totenkopf Badehosen?

They are better than in past, but they don't know the real details until now.

Two possibilities! An artist or only a mad guy from a lunatic asylum. If he is an artist, it is possible the medal could be a skull medal from the SWJ.

Yes, it is me with my favourite skull hat. I wear it only on Sunday! :lol:

Another photo from the category unusual use of skulls. ;)

My last find? Another skull ring ww1. Made in the same style like the piece in # 1313.

Good job Robin! :beer:

Did you notice? For a second time it is in an auction and now they call it a Flammenwerfer Abzeichen.

WW1. Jewelry from 1915.

Robin, I don't talk about the known repro badges. There was an original badge on his web site. Nobody bought it, two or three years ago…. I think it was sold for only 350 Euro. I thought, that you already owned such a badge, before Weitze’s badge was sold. But perhaps it was the same badge?

Please explain.

This one, your badge and the other one sold by Weitze. I guess there is a minimum of three badges. PS: I still hope to find badge #4. :lol:

In tradition of the Imperial IR92: Wehrmacht IR17! Nobody wanted this piece in an auction yesterday and I decided to give this orphan a new home. Now it can live together with the other skulls in my collection. PS: Had another similar one before, but not with such a nice skull.

But it means not, they are right. Robin, at the moment you have the best possibility for a comparison.