Kriegsmarine Please, help with this emblem

[Vic]

Could I get some opinions about this emblem of the 10th flotilla atached to a side cap?

Thanks!

[Laurence Strong]

It's the insignia for U-171 - Type IXC

Commissioned: Oct 25 1941 Fate: Mined Date: Oct 9 1942

Hope this helps

http://www.uboataces.com/ref-insignia14.shtml

Edited October 26, 2006 by Laurence Strong

[Vic]

THanks!!

Also emblem of the 10th flotilla.

Seems original to you?

[Kev in Deva]

THanks!!

Also emblem of the 10th flotilla.

Seems original to you?

I do know that over the last couple of years some very crude un-painted fakes of this insignia have been turning up on German ebay, cut out of steel with very poor definition. Is it actually possible to verify if the one on the cap is original without removing it from the cap??

Kevin in Deva

[Vic]

Thanks!

I still dont have this cap but I can say that badge is not steel but brass.

[Vic]

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[Kev in Deva]

Thanks!

I still dont have this cap but I can say that badge is not steel but brass.

Hallo Vic,

the reason I mentioned "steel" was because the items offered on German Ebay looked to be 1-3mm thick, with no definition, just a combined outline of the cross and sub and very rusty, seller claimed they were found in storage!!

But to my uneducated eye looked like they were somebody's cheap attempt at a repro.

Along the lines of the "Dunkirk Shield" "Stalingrad Shield" etc..etc.. that turns up now and again.

Kevin in Deva.