Various pins to evaluate

**alikat** · 03-07-2012, 06:45 AM

I have seen these 3 pins for sale. I am not sure on them as they all have the coffin shaped pin (I believe a give-away). The NSKK looks like a female drivers badge (example I saw was green though) and has MI rather than M1 on the back; the German/Brit friendship badge looks like it was built for a round pin set-up; and the German/Japan badge eagle looks 'weird'. Am I on the right track, or are these good?

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 03-07-2012 06:45 AM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**winterhilfswerk Book** · 03-07-2012, 06:47 AM

Run!!!!

Sorry...about that! These are all bad...very, very bad. Trust your instincts...

All the best,
Chrys

**winterhilfswerk Book** · 03-07-2012, 06:49 AM

As a side note...there was a guy in Huntington Beach selling A LOT of these bad TR enamel pieces a few years back. Nothing but crap....

Chrys

**alikat** · 03-07-2012, 07:09 AM

And this might be from that hoard judging by the look of them!

**winterhilfswerk Book** · 03-07-2012, 07:22 AM

Yeah...some real fugly stuff there. Sad thing is that most newbies would snap these things up...I know I did when I first started collecting. That is where the internet community has really done well...educating people to things like the 'coffin pin'.

**alikat** · 03-07-2012, 04:18 PM

These ones hail from New Jersey, so they have travelled a bit. Perhaps one of the initial buyers has found out what they really have and is trying to pass them off on to someone else to recoup some of their money.

**winterhilfswerk Book** · 03-07-2012, 04:48 PM

Funny...I knew of an Epier/Ebay dealer that was from New Jersey that was selling this garbage. I believe his name was 'Dandcol' or something like that.

It's always possible that it is a collector who is trying to pass off his mistakes...but I know that there are dealers out there that buy these things in bags for resale.