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RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds????
Posted by: Rainer Bruns ()
Date: January 17, 2001 03:30PM

<HTML>Hi Fin,
Saw this item as well and checked back after your post. Am no expert on decorations, but strongly suspect this one to be a FAKE. The diamond swastika seems to have been fixed atop the plated brass swastika clutched by the eagle\'s claws. Look closely at the view from the back, you can see the brass swastika underneath. I do not believe such a high honor was made in this sloppy a way back then. If you look at the pic of the front, it seems that the diamonds are not even centered.
BTW, Fin, look at this website\'s page under decorations according which 29 ttl were issued.
Perhaps KPP or MPC can help further. The sextant, however, looks real enough. But the provenance claimed is a bit iffy. Rgds, RB</HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Fin Bonset 01/17/2001 02:22PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Frank Blazich 01/17/2001 03:25PM
RE: Beware of Fakes..! joe brandt 01/17/2001 11:22PM
RE: Beware of Fakes..! Frank Blazich 01/18/2001 12:38AM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Rainer Bruns 01/17/2001 03:30PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? kpp 01/17/2001 04:58PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Fin Bonset 01/17/2001 05:15PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Michael Lowrey 01/17/2001 05:12PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Fin Bonset 01/17/2001 05:25PM
RE: Beware of Fakes..! Joe 01/17/2001 10:05PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? kpp 01/17/2001 06:24PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Rainer Bruns 01/17/2001 07:27PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? MPC 01/17/2001 07:55PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Frank Blazich 01/17/2001 08:31PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Joe brandt 01/18/2001 09:41PM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Craig McLean 01/19/2001 03:30AM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Craig McLean 01/19/2001 03:55AM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? kpp 01/19/2001 07:06AM
RE: U-boat Badges with Diamonds???? Craig McLean 01/19/2001 09:02AM


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