I'm probably pouring kerosene on a burning fire here but I'm going to do it as unfortunately there's probably a lot more post war assembled stuff out there floating around than anyone cares to admit. The idea that production stopped at wars end is ludicrious on badges,daggers or any other small collectible to me. These people needed income,faced potential starvation and would do anything to secure food for their families.
I've been digging into the dagger assembly that was going on in the late 40s and 50s for at least 3 years and what I've uncovered leads me to believe that a great many daggers were post war assembled out of leftover parts. Furthrmore these daggers were wholesaled to a few large American dealers and entered the collectors market through them.
Those that state otherwise IMO have a vested interest in trying to keep the majority of the collecting community clueless about how widespread these practices were.
Jim