Guest Rick Research Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 When I were a lad, I had a stamped metal insignia as shown in the photo below, with wide heavy, needlessly heavy prongs. They were fairly common--and in 1970s Wisdom roundly declared to be fantasy pieces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Needless to say, after 40+ years, finally turned up a photo of the wretched thing being worn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Mustabeen Himmler's cousin.... From the Red Cross style sleeve seniority srtripes and rest of the get-up, apparently a 20 year veteran of the city streetcar/trolley car service! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 (edited) I am guessing from the Foghorn Leghorn (griffin?) insignia and "St St W" that this was St(adt) St(.) W(endel)...? All it has is a 1942 dated inscription "to my godchild." Enigma: if the guy was only a MUNICIPAL employee, what's he doing wearing a REICHS cockade on a CITY uniform? And if it's a CITY COLORS cockade... what the...!!!??? Somebody let this guy join the Nazi Party! Edited June 11, 2013 by Rick Research Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I have never seen anything like that. Do you have any background information on this organization? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Stahlhut Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 can you get a clear shot of what's on the tunic buttons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Eric: alas no-- print quality's only good enough to detect something vaguely elongated X-ish shaped... or with those sorts of angles. It's not a great photo and I paid a demented amount just to finally eliminate this particular buried-deep niggling puzzle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock Auld Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_06_2013/post-15855-0-13437500-1372005355.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_06_2013/post-15855-0-22779000-1372005380.jpgGuys, I'm new here but I got this from house clearance last year I think. It looks well enough made and to be honest it was going in the skip if I hadn't grabed it. Jock:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 That's it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Hello Rick.I have one of these streetcar badges too.Oddly enough, for a civil municipal organisation, it's RZM marked. RZM M1/53 for Wegerhoff.Presumably because it was affiliated to Ley's DAF.Mine is nickel-plated tombak, with the swastika and cog 'cut out'.That photo is the first one I've seen of this badge being worn.Thanks for posting !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I had an RZM marked... Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross when I was 12. There was a lot of weird stuff floating around back in the 1960s! I think mine had a cut out swastika, but no mark at all. Weird to think how many tram drivers insignia were brought back yet nobody ever knew what they were! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I've handled an original RZM-marked army belt buckle.They made factory seconds in those days, too !! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 (edited) The RZM Wegerhoff ................. with cut-outs ..................... Even the electric tram lightning bolts are cut out. Edited June 24, 2013 by Robin Lumsden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 ............................... finally turned up a photo of the wretched thing being worn ....................... If only ............................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 WOW! He must have been an Über-straßenbahnführer!!!!! Has that got the big nasty flat pins that would have shredded a cap front? (Wonder what COLORS those caps were....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 The Wegerhoff has nice, dainty little 'Liberace' pins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Lumsden Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Wonder what COLORS those caps were... Prussian Blue? Or black, according to this ............................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 (edited) Ayuh, I'd assume a dark blue civilian-ish outfit like postmen... but what was the "Waffenfarbe" for the hatband and piping? Somebody MUST have one of these hats! Edited June 25, 2013 by Rick Research Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambolini Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 The RZM Wegerhoff ................. with cut-outs ..................... Even the electric tram lightning bolts are cut out. Wow, nice badge. I have never seen one. Interesting thread. kind regards, Sam K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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