HJ Membership Pin: fake or real

[cjmpaintings]

is this pin the real deal or a fake? I know there were many different HJ pins and various backs for those pins.

Casey ~

[Wewelsburg]

It looks like a good but salty RZM M1/52 Deschler & Sohn to me

[scottmadoo]

There is better ones out there. I'm personally not too keen.

[Saladin]

Hello Casey,
having a quick look at your HJ members badge it looks to be a coffin shaped pin fake to me that has had some serious salt ageing.

I have never seen a Deschler pin with this sort of marking

All the best
Doug

[cjmpaintings]

Mixed reviews I'll keep researching it.

Casey ~

[Wewelsburg]

But Doug haves a great knowledge and I'm pretty new to this, so listen to Doug. I maybe were to fast, I'm sorry.

And there is a lot of totenkopf fakes out there marked with m1/52 so there is maybe HJ pins to

[cjmpaintings]

I must agree, I have not found anything (real that is) that looks like this pin. Doug was correct, another piece of metal to go into my junk bin.

Casey ~

[Saladin]

Casey...stop throwing your stuff in to the junk bin.
I have made loads of mistakes in my purchases over the past ??? years but I keep them as great reference pieces.

Now that I am looking on the 'big screen' rather than my phone I see your badge does have a round plate so that's good but unfortunately I have never seen a genuine pre '45 badge with the raised RZM logo and makers mark.
All the Deschlers that are accepted as originals have impressed markings.

All the best
Doug

[cjmpaintings]

Don't get me wrong they are not tossed in the trash. They are removed from my main collection and unceremoniously deposited in an old metal tea can. they will be kept but not displayed.

Casey ~

[Migobeego]

Hi, it looks good to me, but personally I have doubts about this one. It doesn't belong to me so I don't have pictures of the back. Any ideas would be appreciated!