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?
Are there acorns strung through with string? Are they metal acorns? My first guess is fraternal.
The acorbs are strung with string, but they are not metal but some sort of fiber.
Star of david would seem to suggest it is pre Nazi era, possibly post but doubtful
I sort of thought the same thing, Doug. Any German friends able to shed some light on the organization and when it is from?
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.
That sounds like a reasonble explanation. But was there organized soccer in the era this was made?
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.
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.
--dj--Joe
Also on this period day badge.
--dj--Joe
