The variations of the Imperial German wound badge

[Daniel Murphy]

Don,

Fantastic mini, I have never seen one before.

Gordon,

Great pieces, your 800 silver looks to be a dead ringer for mine that is posted above.

Now I have a question. I have seen a few naval wound badges for sale in past couple of years with the background cut out similar to the cut out armies. I have never seen any until then. Are they real and of the period, altered originals or very good modern fakes? I am here to learn too. Here is the picture of one that I saw for sale a while back. Perhaps these are like the Hansen EK1, until recently I had never seen one but a few rare ones were around in collections. These have been seen with both types of swords.

Dan Murphy

Edited January 5, 2006 by Daniel Murphy

[joe campbell]

dan-

while i have NEVER seen one of these

naval cut-outs, i HAVE seen enough of

the "army" wound badges cut out

that it would not surprise me.

it would clearly be a private purchase piece,

but not beyond the scope of possibility.

i await more experienced collectors' responses.

thanks for the pictures, dan.

joe

[don]

I have never seen something like that before.Any opinions?

don

[Paul R]

Paul,

D.R.G.M. is not a maker's mark, but the patent stamp for the catch design.

I posted the following in another thread concerning the DRGM and DRP abbreviations found on many German items:

David

Thanks David! I thought that I had some sort of rare maker mark.

[Ralph A]

Forgot about this one. 16mm.

Edited January 7, 2006 by Ralph A

[Ralph A]

Forgot I had these, too. Must be time to inventory the ol' collection again...

[Ralph A]

Reverse. I think that's it...

[Bob Hunter]

Those are cute little fellas you have there, Ralph!

[Daniel Murphy]

Bob and Ralph,

Your posts made me realize I had forgotten a couple of photos when I started the thread. This is a set of Prinzengrosse or mini wound badges compared with a full size piece.

Dan Murphy

Edited January 9, 2006 by Daniel Murphy

[Daniel Murphy]

And the reverse.

Dan Murphy

[Les]

I remembered this being in the collection. Looks a lot like some of the others on here....(yawn).......

Les

[Les]

...oh yeah, here's the back. Did I mention it was a screwback, and marked "800" on the reverse?

Les

[don]

Would anyone have a cloth Imperial?

don

[JensF.]

The silver screwback is really

Here is a gold plated silver badge with "800" and screwback:

[JensF.]

Back:

[Bryan Poon]

Sorry, I am late. Here I post some of my Imperial German Wound Badges.

Naval Wound Badges

Cheers

BP

[Bryan Poon]

More....

800 Silver Marked

Gold Cutout

Silver Cutout