Now that is a real nice one.Maby you can answer me this.Were only certain makers making the lug type .Was this through the whole TR period.Or were these only for the knives at a later period.
Some questions i have been meening to ask but just didnt do.
Pete, not quite sure what you mean? Like the splints on this one marked M1/152? If so, then it would not have been much use on a knife as it wouldn't fit, rather as a cap badge. The knife diamonds have an inset denture in the reverse so that they will sit flush after the splints were bend outwards under the handle, with these, the splints bend inwards, for a cap, or i guess also for a shirt if you wanted big holes in it
Were only certain makers making the lug type
I dont know because i have not really seen that many cap and knife diamonds, but i would image that some makers received certain orders for either, seeing as they could not be combined, i:e. one standard reverse die for all. The membership diamond reverses mostly have raised attachment guides, also unfitting for use as a knife diamond, and the cap splints would not be able to be used on a knife, and also not really on a shirt - you could, but just imagine the great holes. So i would imagine that yes, probably certain makers only made one or the other, but surely there will also have been makers who made all three kinds. Never really thought about this before.
There is also the miniature HJ diamond on a stickpin to consider, there were not that many makers of this little one either, so possibly makers only made what they had orders for, and didnt go out of their way to create, or have created for them, extra reverse dies for all versions.... maybe someone else will know more?
Yes it`s one i sold a few years ago, the Austrian ones are nice, and more or less all the same, as the makers in that area only received permission/licenses to produce after the annexation in mid 1938, a good 3 years after the RZM M1/ system was introduced and a good while after all oddities were ironed out - so we mainly see uniformity amongst the Austrian marked badges/items as opposed to the mess we find from German makers from late 33 through to mid 1935, and even after the M1/ system came into place in Germany in mid 35 we still find a mess, and a rather long period of adjustment that surely went into 1936 before all makers were more-or-less marking their items in a similar fashion.