I think that it is safe to say that the square type recessed block seen here with the Ges sat on/above the Gesch has only been used on post war badges. I've only seen it in recent years & increasingly on badges definitely known to be fakes (& sometimes on oddities like these Tierschutze).
To complicate matters slightly there is one known example where very a early party badge which is believed to be original has a recessed Ges.Gesch mark similar to these. However, in that case the recess is a long thin rectangle (not a squarish block like those under discussion) & the words Ges.Gesch are side by side, not one over the other as seen on the fakes.
I have only seen a couple more Tierschutze since that discussion was written. The one on Hüskens site appeared at the same time as the thread on WAF & has not yet sold.
I'm always hopeful that there are originals of these, but at the moment I'm doubtful...
Cheers Don
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