NSFK Ballon Badge

**zephyr4** · 02-03-2014, 08:42 PM

Not Sure what this badge is call or if its ok.

Thanks for any help z4.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-03-2014 08:42 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**BOB COLEMAN** · 02-03-2014, 10:14 PM

I moved this to the Orders and Decorations forum where you are more likely to obtain good responses. This is a very rare badge of which I can not comment.

**zephyr4** · 02-03-2014, 10:16 PM

Thanks Bob.

**gel65** · 02-04-2014, 04:41 AM

I know very little about this badge in particular but the quality is not that of any TR badge I have seen most badges have a 3-D appearance to them this one seems to be completely flat, and lacks serious detail in my opinion this is a reproduction

**zephyr4** · 02-04-2014, 06:46 AM

Thanks for information.

z4

**timothy** · 02-04-2014, 07:15 AM

I'm with Bob Coleman haven't handled a real one so I don't know enough to comment it is a extremely rare badge and I have never handled or seen a real one in 50 years of collecting I don't know who or how many firms made them or just one manf of it. The one I did see was well done with all the highlights you would expect to see and it turned out to be a repo so good luck on it timothy

**Adrian** · 02-04-2014, 03:22 PM

I've tried researching this badge and can say I have not found one like it. These are rare badges and every other one I saw had a different hinge and catch and they all had round wire pins. None had this wide flat pin.

**all1knew** · 02-07-2014, 06:50 PM

The badge posted is NOT authentic. No TR badge has ever sported a reverse hardware setup such as this.

William Kramer

**martinw** · 02-08-2014, 03:05 PM

An example,of what i presume is original from the book "Political & Civil Awards of the Third Reich".

Totally different hinge set up.needle pin and the reverse is numbered.

Regards,Martin.