Swastika medals-are they real???

**Dean** · 07-06-2013, 01:18 PM

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Dean.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 07-06-2013 01:18 PM

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**AMTG** · 07-06-2013, 01:43 PM

My first clue would be the clutch clasps......doubt they were available in 1923!

**HPL2008** · 07-06-2013, 02:18 PM

by AMTG

My first clue would be the clutch clasps......doubt they were available in 1923!

Right: These "butterfly"/clutch fasteners were not used on any German pre-1945 insigne, badge, award or decoration of any kind.

Of U.S. origin, this type of fastener was patented in 1942 and may be found on U.S. military badges/insignia of the WW2 period, but never German ones.

[By the way, this is a very poor, cast fake of the Allgemeines Gau-Ehrenzeichen instituted in (if memory serves) 1933. Apart from everything else that is wrong with this one, originals have black enamel on the front.]

Some more info on the subject of clutch fasteners may be found here: Dating Metallic Insignia: Clutch Fasteners