Please post your Blockade Breaker badges here for views and discussions.
--dj--Joe

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Bill,
Your Blockade Breaker badge resembles more the A.G.M.u.K. Gablonz than the Schwerin made badge.

How is yours marked on the reverse?

Link with some excelent close up images.
http://lbmilitaria.homestead.com/index.html

Regards,--dj--Joe

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Hello,
Joe thanks again for reply. I've posted a pic of the reverse of my badge,don't know if it's clear or closeup enough to help at all. Checked out that site you sent a link to and the reverse of mine looks closer to the Schwerin badge but there are differences I can see also,namely the top of hinge on mine seems to differ somewhat from the schwerin badge pictured there and also my catch while similiar seems a little more elongated(?) than the one in the picture...to my eyes. LOL,that's why I generally don't buy war badges,and the fact that they don't turn me on as much as other stuff. I do thank you for your help and info. Any other imput you or others may have is much appreciated also. Hate to find out down the line sometime if I had to sell it and it turned out to be a fake. Again thanks
Bill

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Blockade runner badge

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here is one I have

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rear

Andy, thanks for posting your example, appears to be a scooped back zinc alloy example.
My example follows.
Obverse.
--dj--Joe

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Close up, bridge and port holes.

Close up, eagle.

Reverse.

Close up, maker mark.

Close up, hinge.

Bill, there are the pictures of my example. My pin will not raise to scan the maker mark unobscured. We so far have three different reverse set ups. Andy's example would appear to be a set up for a zinc alloy base metal badge.
My example conforms to accepted originals with a non zinc alloy base metal.

The only rule of thumb for repro's. that I recall is the second from last row of portholes should number seven total on original examples.

I do not believe that in line lettering on the makers mark is a good sign. Check my example the R's and L's especially are not in alinement.

As time allows will do some further research.

--dj--Joe

Hello again all,
Here are a few more pics,again don't know if they help or what. If any other pics needed please let me know and I will post them. I hear what your saying regarding the makers marking being inline. I do also notice a difference in the catch attachment & hinge attachment on mine compared to yours and Andy's and I do believe mine has the correct number of portholes,but I can't say one way or the other regarding authenticity of the piece so I am glad to hear and listen to others assessment of it. Would like to find out the consensus on this piece in any case though. Again thanks and await all opinions regarding it.
Bill

pic:

Bill your # of port holes are correct, beyond that I can not say yet. Your hinge set up would be for a zinc alloy base metal badge but usually (not a written in stone rule), the catch would have a round plate beneath.

I have been checking about, repro sites dissolve on me as fast as I can locate them. I only saw examples of the six porthole second to last row repros.

--dj--Joe

Bill, Some other things may give us a clue even though cases and badges and pins can be switched around over time and passing through many hands. Could you get a shot of the catch on the case? Not wanting you to destroy the case but if you tug gently at the base does it come out revealing the interior? If so is it marked? I'm not sure how much help it would be to see the reverse of the miniature but it may not hurt.

--dj--Joe

Hello again,
Joe I will see if I can take a few closeup pics of the reverse of the miniature and I will also try to see if the base can be removed without destroying it. I do notice that there is no round plate underneath my clasp either. Again thanks
Bill

The more I look into these badges the more questions arise.

I see examples with O's similar to an egg shape and 0's more flat sided.

Will keep looking and wait for more images.

--dj--Joe

Bill, in defense of your reverse set up there is an example on the Collectors Guild Inc. site that looks very much like yours. No plate under the catch. Except it has 0's like my example. You may wish to contact the site, they might send you some better images.

Sorry I do not have their link saved. Let's see what this link does.
http://www.germanmilitaria.com/Kriegsmarine/photos/K15354.html

--dj--Joe

Hello,
Here is a picture of the catch and reverse of the miniature. Joe I tried prying up the base and on one side it started to come up but the other side wasn't going to easily so as I've learned in the past...don't force anything,and so I didn't. With my luck it'll break or something LOL. In any case here are the pics. I will see if that site will supply me better pics perhaps. Thanks
Bill

Reverse of miniature:

Bill,
Found an example like your badge. Check out W6418 .

http://www.nicholasmorigi.com/new_items_catalogue.php

Hello,
Joe, yes indeed that badge certainly does look very much like mine. I have seen this guys site in