Excellent Cooks badge

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Guys, this one belongs to my wife Lez.

I bought it for her some years ago now from a Russian dealer for £65. She was awarded the badge by our re-enactment group after several years of sterling service cooking for up to 40 people a day over a wood fire.

Many Russian comrades who have come to our events over the years have "hung their nose over it" as we say here and commented it was rare. I kind of knew that anyway. But having now got the book on excellent badges I was very pleased to discover this one is the rarest Type 3 with a price tag of $500 to $800.

There is some chipping to the enamel and the screwpost has been shortened for comfort.

We are very pleased with it. Only have a small pic of the front at present as Lez has the I Pad with her.

Cheers, Ade.

[Gunny Hartmann]

Really nice badge mate, wow the Soviets had awards for everything!...

[RH1941]

Very nice Ade.

[KradSpam]

Nice Ade, not too shabby an investment either

[Bill Garvy]

Formerly in the collection. . .

[Tango]

A nice badge Ade like Paul says the Soviets have badges for everything..I don't think this badge would get awarded very often in the British Army because I haven't met a half decent chef talk about an most excellent cook!!! lol. I joke of course the chefs have a very hard job.. Cheers Terry.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Thanks for the kind comments and the smiles.

The hardest badge to obtain is the "Excellent Baker". These vary between $700 to $1000.....

Cheers, Ade.

[Tango]

Ade I have a question ref these badges are they all hollowed back..it is because I'm looking on Fleabay & I thought if I could pick a reasonable priced 1 it would look good on my Allied WW2 shelf & could kick start another exspensive side line..?? Or any other tips would help.. Cheers Terry.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Terry, the vast majority are hollow backed.

The rarer early 1942 issues, like the Sniper, Machine gunner, Artilleryman, Tankist, have a separately appllied hammer and sickle secured by two bent over prongs. Like found on the 1936 patten cap badges.

Bear in mind these badges are all faked.

Cheers, Ade.

[Chopperman]

It's always cool to find out that something you've
had for a while actually has some value to it that
you did not know about.