Nice photo Joe
What I find interesting is that these items do not, of course, appear to have been made for wear on the uniform. They don't have pins and indeed, the badge Joe shows in post #1 has splints so I wonder whether this is the clue to their original purpose? Without the appropriate fastening mechanism, the wearer is left only with one option and that is to do what the boys on the photos did; drill three holes and sew the badge on. Why though? Why not just have a pin? The only possible answer for me is that the badge was originally attached to something else.
We have the statement from Angolia that what we see on the shirts of these boys was originally attached to a ribbon. The inference is that the eagle was attached to a ribbon and that the ribbon had the pin with which to attach the badge to the uniform. However, a ribbon on a HJ/DJ competition badge? Doesn't really sound very macho does it? Someone ordered these badges in advance and I just can't see him picking out badges with ribbons rather than a more appropriate design. There must be a more logical solution to the question of why these boys are wearing a badge on their uniforms that was clearly not designed to go there. It's too big, it has no pin and has been defaced in order to attach it to the uniform.
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I don't like the ribbon idea so I'm thinking about other possibilities like.... presentation folders or certificates. Could these badges originally have been emblems attached to winners' certificates like this oakleaf (right) or like the eagle (left)? I don't know how these items were attached but splints seems like a logical way of doing it and this is something these Sieger badges seem also to have in some cases. To get them onto a shirt all that would need to be done is to flatten the splints (or remove them altogether) and then drill the three holes. Yes, only a theory of course but it does make more sense to me than the idea that drilling three holes and then sewing the badge onto a uniform was better than a pin...
What do you see on the reverse side of your badges Tomas? For example, do those without the holes have splints?