Last edited by Adrian; 03-19-2013 at 06:42 AM. Reason: Title changed to use German terminology.
The Germanische Leistungsrune with the SS runes is a fake badge. These are extremely rare awards and the likelihood of ever encountering an original is very slim. You can see an original in this thread. Compare yours to that one and the differences are very obvious.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
Im gonna say fake on them both. The SS badge "RZM" mark should have some sort of number that would place it to a manufacture and the clasp seems bad. As far as the swastika pin goes I would also bad because I've never seen a Third Reich item marked sterling like that. But wait for more experienced opinions to come along.
I'm fairly certain the Germanische Leistungsrune was never marked but will stand corrected if wrong.
The swastika pin may not even be German but a contemporary piece from another part of the world completely. The swastika has been around a lot longer than Germany in the 1930s and is embedded in worldwide culture from the Far East to Native American Indians.........
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
Adrian is correct: these were never marked.
Cheers, Ade.
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Blue Swastika
Maybe its something from Finland ??
Just a wild guess
Sandsam
Denmark
Sorry forgot to mention the other badge. It is American and a good luck broach and nothing to do with the Third Reich.
Cheers, Ade.
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Thanks for the feedback fellows. Greatly appreciated!
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