Kriegsmarine U-Boat Badge WW1

[nibelungen]

Hello gents, a few years ago I bought this hollow badge, which is your opinion ?

Thank you very much and best regards.

[Gordon Williamson]

So far, the type shown in this thread is the only hollow Imperial type that is universally accepted as being authentic to the period, despite the very flimsy pin fitting. A case of the modern copies having better looking fittings than the true originals.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=31245&view=&hl=steinhauer&fromsearch=1

[nibelungen]

Thank you Gordon.

[Guest Rick Research]

This type was made by Steinhauer & Lück by the 1930s and is clearly identifiable from a number of design features precisely duplicated in their catalog etchings:

I can't remember ever seeing any member of the Kriegsmarine NOT wearing this type from the mid 1930s into the war.

Chief Engineer of the pre-war Uboat arm Otto Thedsen summer of 1937 or 1938 looking sunburned and cranky, wearing this type badge-- the asymmetrical curved ribands above the wreath are always easy to distinguish:

[Guest Rick Research]

An earlier solid (unmarked) type from the estate of Thedsen's colleague, Paymaster of Submarines August Böning, side by side with the S&L type: note the difference notable in the "rippling" of those ribands atop the laurel wreath:

The earlier badges have ribands virtually identical on each side, while the hollow S&Ls have much more prounced bulges over the bow end of the submarine.

Edited December 13, 2009 by Rick Research

[nibelungen]

Thank you Rick for your comments.