Infanterie Sturmabzeichen by Zimmermann

**ortona** · 10-15-2023, 07:46 PM

l started to collect the Infanterie Sturmabzeichen, this is one of my favorite badges

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-15-2023 07:46 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Adrian** · 10-15-2023, 07:59 PM

They are a good design. The bold oakleaves are the best of any badge in my opinion.
It's a slippery slope though, there are many, many, probably in the hundreds of variants to collect......

**rbminis** · 10-15-2023, 08:09 PM

A nice original Zimmermann.
Difficult to see from these photos, does this one have a crimped in hinge?
This one appears to have had the obverse cleaned.
You can compare to my example posted here.
Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber, FZS, Fritz Zimmermann, Stuttgart
Ralph.

**ortona** · 10-15-2023, 09:53 PM

Yes very nice leaves, is why l like these most, l have about 15 different styles now, 9 are marked.
l keep looking, l have also two in bronze.

**ortona** · 10-15-2023, 09:57 PM

Ralph, that is a very nice badge, mine is a bit dark on the reverse, but the pin and hook is exact to your badge, l have not cleaned it, it is about 10 yrs in my collection, it has darkened a bit over the yrs, thank you for showing your badge..

**fischer** · 10-20-2023, 03:46 AM

Hello ortona,

Can you post better photo's of the hinge and catch areas?

For me, I cannot see the crimping flaps that holds the hinge in place.
Also, the catch is not crimped in place either and looks to be soldered on top of the crimp area.

I'm leaning toward this one being a Staegmaier fake...but will need better photo's of the hardware to be certain.

Here is a correct FZS from my collection to compare.

Best Regards, fischer

**fischer** · 10-20-2023, 04:10 AM

Also, the FZS variant did come in several different finish types during this makers production period.

And, like it's Stuttgart neighbor Frank & Reif, Zimmermann also produced examples of the Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in the "Unpoliert" or Unpolished finish...basically zinc in it's raw state.

Here is a Zimmermann ISA with crimped in hardware showing the "Unpolient" type finish and a zinc unpolished rock.

Best Regards, fischer

**fischer** · 11-01-2023, 04:33 AM

Hi Guys,

I was hoping for the additional photo's of the example that started this thread. But without them, I will show some Staegmaier fakes with the attributes I mentioned earlier.

Notice the circular catch base is soldered on top of the crimping lip and the hinge base made to look like it's crimped in but it's just soldered in between the flaps.

The last example the hardware is just soldered on top of the crimp areas that remained during the casting process.

Best Regards, fischer