Heer Anti Partisan Badge: Real or just beautiful fake?

[kapten_windu]

Hi Gentlemen, i just found a seller that sell some badge under average price, the items are beautiful, but i'm affraid if the're just fake, here some of them:

Anti Partisan Badge in bronze:

marked L/58

Picture:

Edited April 12, 2011 by kapten_windu

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[dond]

Sorry to say but that is a fake.

[Guest Darrell]

I'll give some advice. If it's the same person trying to sell Pilots badges you posted ... time to look elsewhere in a hurry.

[Nick]

Run for the hills !

[Gordon Craig]

kapten_windu

Very few of these badges were made or issued. The chances of finding an authetic one, at any price, are virtually zero.

Regards,

Gordon

[Guest Darrell]

kapten_windu

Very few of these badges were made or issued. The chances of finding an authetic one, at any price, are virtually zero.

Regards,

Gordon

Really? I can find you 10 without looking very hard.

[Robin Lumsden]

Unusual to see the 'L/58' mark on this particular repro.

Old Souval copies usually have a distinctive skull.

This must be a more modern 'hybrid'.

[Gordon Craig]

Really? I can find you 10 without looking very hard.

Darrel,

If you can find 10 you think are authentic ones your welcome to them all.

Regards,

Gordon

[kapten_windu]

Some days ago i see a bronze Anti Partisan Badge sold on WAF..

Anyone saw it too? What's your opinion Gentlemen?

[EBJ]

I have had three original silver badges; one with fat pin and two with round pins. All pins were blued. I have a gold badge documented as taken from a POW toward the end of the war in Italy. It has a fat pin and an Assmann TM behing the swastika.

Any thoughts?! EBJ

[Wood]

Assmann TM behing the swastika.

Any thoughts?! EBJ

I do not think any of these badges were maker marked.

Pete

Edited September 13, 2011 by Wood

[EBJ]

How many gold ones have you seen? I have been colleciing for 55 years; this is the first gold one I have seen that has provenance.

EBJ

[Kev in Deva]

How many gold ones have you seen? I have been colleciing for 55 years; this is the first gold one I have seen that has provenance.

EBJ

Have you any pictures of the mentioned items that have passed through your hands?

Kevin in Deva. :cheers:

[EBJ]

I may still have some photos I can get copied. R.J. Bender was going to do an article about AP badges years ago, so I sent him photos of all mine. As I am an "old timer", I have been thinning down my collection and only have the gold one remaining. EBJ