Double Screwpost Wound Badge

[Gordon Williamson]

Just arrived thanks to Stogieman !

Anyone else have screwback Wound Badges to show ?

[joe campbell]

i'm on call right now, but will get some pix

up this weekend.

nice wound badge, gordon!

joe

[Gerd Becker]

Very nice and unusual Woundbadge, Gordon.

I hope, Jens F. will post his examples here as well again He has a great collection of unusual Woundbadges.

Gerd

[Claudio]

Hi Gordon,

Nice one! Here's mine, also a Silver badge.

Ciao,

Claudio

Obverse:

[Claudio]

and reverse

[Claudio]

another shot...

[Gordon Williamson]

Wow!!!

Beautiful beast, that one. I guess the recess at the top reverse is so that it could also have had a hinge fitted and be completed in a pinback configuration ?

[Claudio]

Thanks Gordon.

Yes, I guess so to. Maybe the wearer ordered first this badge and let it transformed in a screwback type of badge by a juweller.

Jens has surely some nice things to show.

Ciao,

Claudio

[Les]

Not as nice as the previous two....here's mine. 800 silver marked at the top of the wreath on the back on a raised "box."

Les

[Les]

Gordon, I don't recall having seen another double-screw back in many years.That's a really graet one to have picked up. Claudio.... nice, very nice!

Les

[Stogieman]

Les! Is that an applied silver tag w. 800, or actually integral/stamped into the metal itself!?

[Les]

Les! Is that an applied silver tag w. 800, or actually integral/stamped into the metal itself!?

Rick, Stogie.

I had that question in mind when I picked it up of a seller's table. -Applied-. That would have been difficult to stamp with the tag as part of the design.

Les

[joe campbell]

two double posts, followed by a single post.

first, a black double post.

joe

[joe campbell]

second of the double posts, again, a black one.

joe

[joe campbell]

finally, a silver single post, one of my favorites.

finish is so much richer in hand.

obverse.

joe

[joe campbell]

reverse.

joe

[Stogieman]

Les, that wound badge was made by the same maker as this:

[Bob Hunter]

This thread is taking the ubiquitous wound badge to a whole new level! Very nice badges, gentlemen.

Stogie, love that 800 Observer!

[Gordon Williamson]

Wonderful pieces ! Just goes to prove that the humble Imperial Wound Badge is definitely vastly under-rated.

[Gerd Becker]

Great examples, Les and Joe

[Daniel Murphy]

These have been seen before, but are repeated for our newer members. Plus, I just like 'em.

Dan Murphy

[Daniel Murphy]

Nice Cut-out.

[Daniel Murphy]

Doesn't look like much from the front. This one was brought back by (later in WW2) Col. Ferguson who was with the 30th Division in both wars. It was still attached to the piece of fieldgray uniform it was cut off of (not shown).

[Deruelle]

Beautiful wound badges. Daniel your wound badge is so nice.

Just for my information, who realized these badges during the war. Godet, Juncker, etc. Thanks per advance

Regards

Christophe

[Daniel Murphy]

Christophe,

The problem is every order maker probably produced them, but they failed to mark them except on perhaps the rare occasion. Look at the screwback rayback badge in silver posted above. Not a finer quality badge was produced by anyone, yet the only mark is "Silber". We may never know who made which ones, so we just have to appreciate them for what they are and what they represent.

Dan Murphy