Need help authenticating an ss pin

**Slickwid** · 02-10-2018, 04:46 AM

Hello i am new to the forum. I have an ss lightning bolt pin that i wasnt able to find anything on google about, and was wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction..

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-10-2018 04:46 AM

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**Aldo** · 02-10-2018, 04:48 AM

Hello, you need to provide some photo's in order to get some input.

**MAP** · 02-10-2018, 04:57 AM

Welcome to the forum Slick. You are in the right "direction" by coming here. Sure someone can help but as Aldo noted, we need photos

Here is a handy tutorial for uploading photos. Quality photos are key for a good evaluation as they are highly faked.

Visual Guide to Upload Photos

Does the pin look like either of these?

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ss-un...number-541254/

or this one

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ss-un...tickpin-26047/

**Slickwid** · 02-10-2018, 08:55 PM

by MAP

Welcome to the forum Slick. You are in the right "direction" by coming here. Sure someone can help but as Aldo noted, we need photos

Here is a handy tutorial for uploading photos. Quality photos are key for a good evaluation as they are highly faked.

Visual Guide to Upload Photos

Does the pin look like either of these?

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ss-un...number-541254/

or this one

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ss-un...tickpin-26047/

I will upload some pics when i get home, but its a single lightning bolt about an inch and a half tall with two pins coming out the back that have screw type backings with teeth to affix it on a uniform. Its 10k gold, or at least stamped with a 10k stamp on the back... It certainly looks antique enough to be authentic, but i understand that this authentic look can be faked... Again, ill upload pics once i get back home..

**jHAM** · 02-10-2018, 11:12 PM

The SS did not produce insignia in gold. It also did not produce single rune insignia. The HJ however did, not in real gold though. It is a runic depiction and not a lightning bolt. The idea that the rune is a lightning bolt seems to hold some neo-nazi interpretation if you ask me. Good luck friend. Lets see the photos.

**Slickwid** · 02-11-2018, 01:08 AM

**MAP** · 02-11-2018, 02:42 AM

Interesting. Definitely appears to be a DJ (Deutsche Jungvolk) "style" Sig Rune. Appears to be well made with some age. But as to what it really is, I do not know. Never seen something like this.

Hopefully others will be around. And maybe a Mod can move this to the correct forum for better attention

A quick and simple history of the DJ (not that I always agree with Wiki)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Jungvolk