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WW2 German medals and awards, combat badges, enameled badges, stickpins, German shooting lanyards, Army cap eagles, Luftwaffe cap eagles, WW2 German ribbon bars, etc., as available. |
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| General Assault Badge, Mid-War Quality | |
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2GM-19LCN. The badge was instituted on June 1, 1940 to recognize Engineer, Artillery, Anti-Aircraft, Anti-Tank and other personnel who supported an attack but were not eligible for the Infantry or Armored Assault badges. Personnel must have participated in three Infantry or Armor assaults on three different days. Approximately 1-5/8-inch wide x 2-1/8-inch high, die struck, oval, alloy metal badge that exhibits moderate signs of age, light to moderate wear on some of the surface highlights. The front retains approximately 45%, or more, of its original silver finish, with the remaining, 55% showing a gray base metal finish. Most mid-war manufactured badges are lacking in the detail usually found in earlier badges; this badge is consistent with that type of manufacturing. The lightly sculptured backside exhibits an overall aged gray finish with light remnants of the original silver finish. This badge has a, set-in and crimped, hinge and a, set-in and crimped, pin catch, unfortunately the long thin attaching pin is missing from this medal. A good representative example of a mid-war quality Infantry Assault badge. Unmarked. About Vg. $85.00 |
| Ribbon Bar For Iron Cross 2nd Class Medal | |
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2GM-20. 1-inch wide x ¾-inch high ribbon bar for the Iron Cross 2nd Class medal. The front of the ribbon is clean with just a hint of age. The back of ribbon bar is unlined and has a horizontal, safety pin, type attaching pin. Excellent. $14.00 SOLD |
| Ribbon Bar For Iron Cross 2nd Class Medal | |
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2GM-20a. 1-inch wide x ¾-inch high ribbon bar for the Iron Cross 2nd Class medal. The front of the ribbon exhibits light age, as well as a line of moderate soil across the center of the ribbon. The back of ribbon bar is lined with dark gray felt and has a horizontal, safety pin, type attaching pin. About Vg. $10.00 SOLD |
| Ribbon Bar For War Merit Cross 2nd Class Medal, With Bronze Crossed Swords Device | |
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2GM-20b. 1-inch wide x ¾-inch high ribbon bar for the War Merit Cross 2nd Class medal, with bronze crossed swords, (for bravery), device. The front of the ribbon exhibits moderate, (heavy in some spots), age and soil, from handling and use. The crossed swords device has a blackened finish, which is aged and worn. The back of ribbon bar is lined with dark green wool felt material, which exhibits moderate to heavy signs of age and use; the back has a horizontal, safety pin, style attaching pin with a hooked, flat metal, pin catch. Vg-. $9.00 SOLD |
| Ribbon Bar – WW1 Iron Cross, War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Crossed Swords Device, WW1 Honor Cross With Crossed Swords Device and The Czech Medal | |
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2GM-20c. 4-inch long x 3/8-inch high, ribbon bar. The individual ribbons are rolled over and hand sewn on a semi-flexile material base; the devices are separately applied on the ribbon material and their brass prongs are folded over on the backside of the ribbon is un-lined; it has remnants of original sewing thread used to sew this typed of ribbon bar to a uniform. Light overall age from handling, very minor and insignificant soil from handling; there’s a tiny rust mark, and some other small soil mark on the white part of the Iron Cross ribbon. A unique style ribbon. Vg+. $35.00 |
| Ribbon Bar For Russian Front Medal | |
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2GM-20d RF. 1-inch wide x 3/4-inch high ribbon bar for the Russian Front medal. The front of the ribbon is in excellent+ condition, exhibiting extremely slight and insignificant signs of age; no soil. The back of ribbon bar is lined with bright green felt and has a horizontal attaching pin with a flat, hooked metal, pin catch. The backside exhibits very light signs of age and there is insignificant age on the attaching pin. Beautiful condition. Excellent+. $12.00 SOLD |
| Ribbon Bar For The War Merit Cross, 2nd Class With Bronze Crossed Swords Device And The Russian Front Medal | |
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2GM-20e RF. 1-1/4-inch wide x 3/4-inch high ribbon bar for the War Merit Cross, 2nd class, with bronze crossed swords and the Russian Front medal. The front of the ribbon is in excellent+ condition, exhibiting very slight and insignificant signs of age, no soil. The back of ribbon bar is lined with gray felt and has a horizontal attaching pin with a flat, hooked metal, pin catch; very light and insignificant age on the attaching pin. Beautiful condition. Excellent+. $16.00 SOLD |
| Ribbon Bar For Iron Cross 2nd Class; War Merit Cross With Bronze Crossed Swords Device And Luftwaffe Long Service Medal With Early Style Dropped Tail Eagle Device | |
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2GM-20f RF. 1-3/4-inch long x ¾-inch high bearing the following cloth ribbons. 1). Iron Cross 2nd class; 2). War Merit Cross 2nd class with crossed bronze swords device; 3). Luftwaffe Long Service with early style, dropped tail, eagle device. The front of the ribbon is in excellent+ condition, exhibiting very slight and insignificant signs of age, no soil. The back of ribbon bar is lined with light gray felt and has a horizontal attaching pin with a flat, hooked metal, pin catch; very light and insignificant age on the attaching pin. Beautiful condition. Excellent+. $32.00 SOLD |
| Ribbon Bar For War Merit Cross With Bronze Crossed Swords Device; Russian Front And West Wall Medal | |
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2GM-20g RF. 1-3/4-inch long x ¾-inch high bearing the following cloth ribbons. 1). War Merit Cross 2nd class with bronze crossed swords device; 2). Russian Front Medal. 3). West Wall Medal. The front of the ribbon is in excellent+ condition, exhibiting very slight and insignificant signs of age, no soil. The back of ribbon bar is lined with blue felt and has a horizontal attaching pin with a flat, hooked metal, pin catch; one small and one moderate moth hole in the blue felt. Beautiful condition. Excellent+. $20.00 SOLD |
| Miniature, Silver, Hitler Youth Leader Proficiency Badge | |
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2GM-21BRF. Small, stamped silver aluminum badge, approximately ½-inch wide x 7/8-inch high, depicting a swastika, within a circle, superimposed on an upward pointing arrow; the circle is embossed with runic-like German letters, which translates, “For Achievement by Leaders of the Hitler Youth.” The backside has an overall copper color and is embossed, “RZM M7/101,” and has a wire, safety pin type, attaching pin and pin catch. Light signs of age, light wear with a couple of dings on the front from handling and use, (nothing of a serious nature). Nice strike. Scarce. Vg. $59.00 SOLD |
| Police Visor Hat Insignia. Maker Marked JFS | |
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2GM-22ARF. Standard Nazi period police visor hat insignia. Approx. 2-3/4-inch high x 2-1/8-inch wide, stamped silver aluminum insignia depicting a spread wing eagle and swastika, within an oval oak leaf wreath. This insignia is original factory constructed with the top portion of the wreath tilted slightly to the front to accommodate the shape of the police visor hat. Two hardened metal attaching pins are set into the, hollow, semi-sculptured backside. The letters “JFS,” (Josef Feix & Sohne, Gablonz a.d. Niesse), are embossed within a small embossed square on the backside; “JFS,” made many different quality badges and awards throughout WW2; from my experience it’s somewhat unusual to find the “JFS” maker mark on a Police cap eagle. I acquired a quantity of these highly detailed, finely designed Police cap badges from a veterans accumulation, stored in an attic since WW2; the badges may have light storage soil on the front, and or, on the backside, as well as light surface rust on the metal attaching pins; all of which, could be cleaned if you have a notion to do so. I will send the best ones out first. Beautiful detail. Near excellent. $38.00 ON HOLD |
| Police Visor Hat Insignia. Maker Marked R.S.S | |
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2GM-22ARFa. Standard Nazi period police visor hat insignia. Approx. 2-3/4-inch high x 2-1/8-inch wide, stamped silver aluminum insignia depicting a spread wing eagle and swastika, within an oval oak leaf wreath. This insignia is original factory constructed with the top portion of the wreath tilted deeply to the front to accommodate the shape of the police visor hat. Two hardened brass attaching pins are set into the, hollow, semi-sculptured backside. The letters “R.S.S.,” (Richard Sieper & Söhne, Lüdenscheid), are embossed within a small embossed circle on the backside; “R.S.S.,” made many different quality badges and awards throughout WW2. I acquired a quantity of these nicely detailed Police cap badges from a veterans accumulation, stored in an attic since WW2; the badges may have light storage soil on the front, and or, on the backside, as well as light surface deterioration on the brass attaching pins; all of which, could be cleaned if you have a notion to do so. I will send the best ones out first. The design is distinctly different as compared to the “JFS” badge above. Nice detail. Near excellent. $32.00 ON HOLD |
| Black Wound Badge For German Volunteers In The Spanish War Of Freedom 1936-1939 | |
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2GM-23. Highly detailed, stamped brass badge, issued for one or two wounds. The badge depicts a WW1 style German helmet bearing a large, very high relief swastika in the center of the helmet; the helmet is superimposed over crossed swords on a stippled background with an oak leaf wreath edge. Hollow back construction, brass needle pin with a bras wire pin catch device. Light signs of age and wear, the black paint, on the front, is worn, exposing a dull brass finish, approximately 60% of its original paint remains. The backside retains approximately 95% of its original black paint and has a dusty soil in the crevasses. Note: This is actually a very scarce medal and was only awarded 182 times during the 1936 to 1939 period, however, there were many more of these badges produced than were actually needed; this design continued to be issued by the Germans until existing supplies were exhausted. After 1939, supplies of this award were used up quite quickly. Unmarked, as most of them are. A unique badge that's difficult to acquire. Vg. $140.00 SOLD |
| D.D.A.C. (German Automobile Club), Detmold Ortsgruppe Automobile Grille Plaque For, Lippe-Detmold Automobile Rally Dated 8 Juli 1934 | |
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2GM-24. 2-5/8-inch wide x 3-1/2-inch high, slightly convex, gilt and enameled brass plaque, designed to be wired onto an automobile grille, for those persons who participated in the Detmold Ortsgruppe, “Lippe-Detmold automobile rally.” The plaque has a beautiful, multi-colored, heavily enameled design, which depicts a fallen Prussian soldier and a charging Prussian soldier, in full regalia, bearing a rifle with mounted bayonet, bayonet and in full-color regalia. The top center of the plaque gears the date, 8 Juli, 1934, the date is flanked by the enameled Detmold castle coat of arms and the Lippe rose coat of arms. The bottom center of the plaque bears the NSDAP eagle & swastika design for the D.D.A.C. (German Automobile Club). The plaque also has gilt Laurel branches and gilt German inscription on a black enameled background. The German inscription reads as follows: “Zielfahrt Ortsgruppe Detmold D.D.A.C. Lippe-Detmold, Ein wunder schone stadt. Darinnen ein soldat Kaum hatt'er diese worte ausgesagt, Da fiel der zweite schuss und da Liegter nun und schreit Nicht mehr weil er Getroffen ist.” The enamel is in near excellent condition and shows light signs of age, as well as some very minor surface scratches ad a few very tiny dings from handling and storage over the past 62-years. The gilt has darkened over the years and is soiled in parts but much of the original gilt still remains. The backside has an overall darkened gilt finish with light to moderate areas of darkening, tarnish, minor soil and surface scratches from handling and storage, (nothing of a serious nature). The backside is maker marked, “Metallkleinkunst A.Moser Munchen. Truly a beautiful example of a, high quality, NSDAP D.D.A.C. automobile rally plaque. Near excellent. $225.00 SOLD |
| Luftwaffe Marksmanship Lanyard Grade 5, Matte-Gray Aluminum Luftwaffe Eagle & Wreath With No Acorns | |
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2GM-26. This style Luftwaffe Marksman award
was instituted in 1936 to replace the old style Reichswehr Marksmanship
sleeve stripes. This specimen is approximately 17-inches overall length
and constructed from heavy blue/gray silk cords braded to form a rope like
design; the cords are interwoven with silver aluminum threads forming an
overall chevron pattern. The matte-gray aluminum insignia bears a high
relief design of a Luftwaffe eagle with a swastika in its talons, within
an oak leaf wreath. There are three, ball shaped, sliders constructed from
woven silver thread. A loop at the top the lanyard attaches to a button
under the right shoulder board, another loop at the bottom of the lanyard,
attaches to the second button on the front of the Luftwaffe tunic. This
specific lanyard is the first award, in the second grouping of three
groups of Marksman awards, and did not come with any acorns or artillery
shell pendants. The backside of the eagle and wreath area has blue/gray
wool backing; the back of the braded rope was manufactured with out a
lining. The Luftwaffe eagle and wreath are very lightly aged and the
matte-gray aluminum finish is lightly worn on the highlights of the
design. The braded rope is in Vg+ condition, except for some very minor
dusty soil; there is one fairly large frayed spot on one of the cords near
the bottom of the braded portion of the lanyard; the loops and the silver
sliders are all intact. The backside is just about excellent. A very
nice example. We have taken the frayed spot into consideration when
pricing this item. Vg+. $110.00 |
| Cloth Version Of The German Cross In Gold With Gray Green Edge Trim For Army and Waffen SS Uniforms | |
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2GM-27. Approximately 2-7/8-inch wide x 2-7/8-inch high, hand embroidered, cloth version of the German Cross in gold, with gold metal laurel wreath dated 1941, (date of institution), and Gray Green wool edge trim for wear on Army and Waffen SS uniforms. The front depicts a hand embroidered black swastika with silver wire trim, on a white circle. The gold metal laurel wreath is trimmed on the inside with red twisted thread; the outside is trimmed with red twisted thread and silver twisted wire. The gray starburst design with silver wire tips is bordered with gray green wool. The paper backing missing on the backside, (a natural occurrence when the glue dries out), exposing a multitude of silver wire and thread showing the amount of handwork that went into the construction of this patch. Very light signs of age to the cloth parts; approximately half of the gold metal wreath is tarnished from age and storage and has a light greenish haze in some spots; no soil. A nice example. SCARCE. $575.00 SOLD |
| DJ Runic Proficiency Badge Numbered 57001 | |
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2GM-28AZE. Approximately 1-1/4-inch wide x 1-7/8-inch high, stamped metal badge, depicting a swastika, within a circle, superimposed on a single Rune; the circle is embossed with runic-like German letters, which translates, “For Achievement in the DJ.” The badge appears to have had a silver finish at one time, which is moderate to heavily aged and tarnished to a blue/gray color. The backside has a safety pin type attaching pin and pin catch; (the catch part of the pin has been flattened, it’s still intact and does not affect the display ability of the insignia; I do not suggest trying to straighten it out). The backside is numbered, “57001,” and is also marked, “RZM, M1/15. A very sound example. About Vg. $135.00 SOLD |