My Flea Market Pickups Yesterday

**buellmeister** · 05-31-2010, 02:32 PM

Gents,

Was out combing the countryside for militaria yesterday and stumbled upon these little tidbits. Your comments are welcome. The center badge has no maker marks and looks to be a more modern piece. My only assumption to this is the apparent use of a clear adhesive to bond the components together? I'm interested to hear everyone's expertise on this one.

Regards,

Joel

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 05-31-2010 02:32 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**oradour** · 05-31-2010, 03:12 PM

buellmeister, patriotic badges, first to celebrate the alliance between Germany & Austro-Hungary, second an Austro-Hungarian double headed dual monarchy patriotic badge, the third is also commemorative badge to celebrate/recognise the Central Powers alliance, showing heads of state of Turkey,Austro-Hungary,Germany & Bulgaria. These are not military badges as such, sold worn on home front to civilians, soldiers on leave. Very nice finds...these are collectable.

**buellmeister** · 05-31-2010, 03:59 PM

oradour, thank you very much for your information! I appreciate it..

So, in your opinion, the Austrian Badge is period made?

**Walkwolf** · 06-01-2010, 01:50 AM

Found an identical badge here in Canada in the mid 1970's on a football field at my High School.
I think it may be an Austrian ski badge, or a souvenir piece.

Wished I had kept it, as I was impressed with the enamel
- it was very well made and looked nice !

**buellmeister** · 06-01-2010, 02:25 AM

Thanks Walkwolf. I'm psyched I found them..

Regards,

Joel

**buellmeister** · 06-01-2010, 12:41 PM

Gents,

Can anyone provide a sense of what these are worth? I just want to make sure my expenditure was justified. Thank you!

**oradour** · 06-01-2010, 05:39 PM

buellmeister, Walkwolf is correct on that one, badge 2 probably dates between post WW2 to date, due to the fact to the colours on the shield being red/white (current Austrian flag colours), during WW1 the national colours for Austro-Hungary were black/yellow and these are the colours one sees on WW1 pieces. I would give a price of around £10-15 ($20) on badges 1 & 3, badge 2 the souvenir piece about £2-3 ($5).

**Walkwolf** · 06-01-2010, 06:29 PM

I agree with Oradour's evaluation.

The patriotic/commemorative medals are extremely interesting and very collectible
but do not cost all that much. I hope you did OK on them as they are really nice !