Totenkopf, elderly gentleman at flea market insisted it was real...i know....i know.......

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Actually my son wants it badly. I purchased in haste but learned a valuable lesson on this forum about patience and utilizing experts. Fortunately I can recover from this mild monetary mishap. I can only imagine that some people have spent a fortune on items they thought were original only to discover later they had been duped on a much larger scale. I can't afford the real deal. My son would go nuts over your items. Of that I am 100% certain.

There are many sites that sell reproductions as such and at a modest price.

The problem arises with the search in the easy places for an authentic badge.

These are few and far between, and the demand outstrips the supply.

And the thing is surely not worth USd 1500 under any circumstances, regardless of what persons want for these things.