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Hello all, first time posting in this forum I need some help. I picked this badge up with some miscellaneous WW2 items, but I have no idea what the heck it is. Any help would be appreciated. The front has the initials SGV above a six point star. The bottom says Mittweida. The back has an attached plate with the maker Thieme and Fuchs of Leipzig. Any ideas on identity and age?
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Are there acorns strung through with string? Are they metal acorns? My first guess is fraternal.
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The acorbs are strung with string, but they are not metal but some sort of fiber.
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Star of david would seem to suggest it is pre Nazi era, possibly post but doubtful
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I sort of thought the same thing, Doug. Any German friends able to shed some light on the organization and when it is from?
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Sport und gesangsverein (sgv) means, I've found, "sport and glee club" (from the town of mittweida). SGV seems to be also a prefix for modern soccer clubs over there, e.g "sgv Freiberg" so maybe it's a soccer badge or award. Plus, the picture ********, but it appears to be a trophy in the middle of the star.
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That sounds like a reasonble explanation. But was there organized soccer in the era this was made?
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I'm not sure if we've definitively named the era, but I know European football clubs, and of course German clubs go back to the late 1800s, (1870-1880) so maybe it's even pre-ww1.
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The six pointed star was still in use at least up to 1938. It can be seen in outline on the cover of a Juli 1938 edition of Die klinge.
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Also on this period day badge. --dj--Joe
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