Hi Don. I do recall those pieces.
Interesting about the maker stamp. I will have to dig through my pile and see if I have a Schmidhaussler-marked piece.
My memory clicked slightly - is this the set that there is a variant? Something to do with Gau.
--dj--Joe
Added an image. Can you see the punch marks on mine? My old eyes aren't working.
I'm not sure that I can Joe, looks like yours is a full name stamp rather than pin punched letters.
You pre-empted me regarding the variant
. There is indeed one, much rarer than the ones above, although I suspect that they are often missed as the difference is so small - Sängergau rather than Sängerbund. So far, all of the ones that I have seen, which isn't many, are unmarled to the reverse.
Here are my silver & gold honour stickpins. So far I have never seen, or heard of, a standard bronze coloured member pin with Sängergau. I will only show one reverse so save space.
Don
