Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen, Frank & Reif?

[elof]

What's the opinion on this one guys?
Authentic? Never been a collector of medals and awards so need a bit of help.


Thanks

elof

[big ned]

Hi Mate,

Hard to say on the strength of these pic's. These particular F&R badges are heavily faked to a good standard in many cases so straight on focussed shots of the entire badge front and rear clearly showing the hardware details are required to come to a definitive answer as these pictures aren't good enough to do that.

Regards, Ned.

[elof]

Thanks for reply Ned. I will take some more photos to include the whole badge front and back.

[Adrian]

Hinge and catch need to be included in the photos as well.

[big ned]

Thanks for reply Ned. I will take some more photos to include the whole badge front and back.

Thanks. Meanwhile perhaps this will help.



Hardware: The sheet metal hinge should have an oval base, and the catch should be a '?' shape sitting on a small round base. As far as I know there should be no variations on this set up.

Regards, Ned.

[elof]

[big ned]

Hi elof,

Well no problems there, it's a good textbook example! Being semi hollow it's also the hardest one to find by F&R and is considered rather uncommon, so all in all a great result. Thanks for showing it.

Regards, Ned.

[elof]

Thanks Ned , had an EK in the same batch which has turned out to be bad so at least some good news :-)

Cheers again

elof

[harryamb2]

agree with Ned.