Post em if you have them. Let's attempt to place as many examples as we can in this thread.

Badge institution date 1940.

My Schwerin example. Obverse.
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(For those who may not know, OTTO PLACZEK was the designer.
Schwerin, reverse.
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Wernstein.

Jamie, nice badge.
Recently discovered evidence suggests the W in a circle with 5 dashes above the W is the mark of E. FERD WIEDMANN. Note, E FERD is five letters to correspond to the dashes. Post war images of the emblem and the factory name have been seen. It was thought to be WERNSTEIN for years but doubts had been growing.

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Ok Joe, I'll note the changes in my records.

First up is a Assmann.

Back.

Maker's mark is stamped into the back of the water plume.

Hinge.

Here's another Assmann with a few differences.

Back..

First difference is the Maker's mark. This one is raised.

Second is the pin at the hinge.

An unmarked Adolf Scholze.

Back...

An unmarked Foerster & Barth.

Back....

Next one is marked LM which is believed to be Lind & Meyer. I'm not sure if it's been determined definite yet.

Back.....

Maker's mark.

Maker Rudolf Karneth & S�hne.

Back......

MM RK

Catch.

Another RK.

Back.......

MM is under the pin but can't move it without breaking the catch.

Slightly different catch.

R.S.S. , can't think of the name of the maker at the moment.

Back........

MM.....

Schwerin.

Back.........

MM.......

Here's another Schwerin.

Back..........

.MM

Weidmann

..Back

..MM

WH

...Back

Walter & Henlein

L/53 Hymmen & Co.

....Back

....MM

The rest are all unmarked and I haven't been able to check them against marked pieces. There is a good book on these put out by a member on WAF (Sascha Weber-Infosammler)but, there are some makers missing from the book.

.Back.

Unmarked #2

Unmarked #2 back.

Unmarked #3.

Unmarked #3 back.

Unmarked #4.

Unmarked #4 back.

Unmarked #5.

Unmarked #5 back.

Unmarked #6.

Unmarked #6 back.

Unmarked #7.

Unmarked #7 back.

Unmarked #8 & #9 both have the horizontal style pin.

Unmarked #8 back.

Last badge. It's the same as #8 but I really like this style. #9 front.

#9 back.

Raymond, R.S.S. or R.S.&S. is Richard Simm & S�hne, Gablonz.
Nice line up.
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That's only the 2nd. time I have seen WH in an oval.

Collectors please, other examples?

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Joe,
Check this minesweeper out. Appears to be an AS, but many don't think so based on minor variances in design. Interestingly, this one has some sort of personalization next to the ball/hinge harndware assembly. An unmarked example.

Obverse.

could the R.S.& S. marking be for the Richard Sieper und Sohne firm?...robert

Rudolph Souval with envelope

Here is my RK
#1

Photo #2

Photo #3

Photo #4

Last #5

Jamie, Raymond, Tom, Robert, Z06, Stan, thanks for making this such a valuable and informative thread.

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Well deserving of another look.

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Raymond, looks like unmarked #2 is a Foerster & Barth.

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Great looking badges guys. A really wonderful badge. So Ray, I guess that's where all of the minesweeper examples have gone

defaced mine sweeper

reverse

Joe, I'll have to check on that unmarked #2. It does look like a Foerster & Barth on a quick look. The catch is a different style but maybe they used more that one catch.
Sword-Fish, I bought most of my badges years ago when they were relatively cheap, well at least compared with today's prices. These badges were very common at shows. Now it seems they are all put away .

Gents,

Here's one that I recently came across that I thought I'd add to this nice thread. Thanks for sharing all those fine examples with us, gents!

This one's unmarked, and has a distinctive, right-angled, "C" catch. Any ideas or opinions in general?

Thanks again for all the fine photographs!

Bill

2/2

The catch has been seen on wound badges and other badges also. Luft. AA badge for one.

It has a distinctive notch at the base of the water plume. Ridges to the leaves. Fierce looking eagle.

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Joe,

As always, appreciated, kind sir!

W~

Thank you for showing it Bill. I have seen at least two other examples like it. Consensus supports, that it's an early to mid war produced badge by an unknown maker. Not a common find.

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This old thread was lurking in the back pages. Well worth another trip to the top.
Any additions, anyone?

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yeah some really have some really nice details to them.. Were any ever produced 'Hollowback' ??

Here is a Schwerin Mine Sweeper from my collection.

Cheers!

Don, a fine example. Much better photographed than my example from page one.

Thank you.

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Gaspare, my apologies for the late reply. To my knowledge there were no hollow back period produced Mine Sweeper/Sub Chaser/Escort Vessel war badges.

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