zinc

hi all just found these on the warbooty site, now these are new to me and i would love to hear other opinions, strangely from never seeing one in the yrs i have collected warbooty currently have 3 on their site, they are your usual m1/120 HJ deumer honour badges but painted zinc????? could it...

Hey gang.....I just received this buckle - it's a pretty cool HJ buckle that is made in zinc! That was one reason I wanted to add it to the collection - second reason is the odd M4 marking. See how the "M" is raised and somewhat smaller. I thought that was very cool. Happy to have it added to...

Deutsche Jugendmeisterschaften im Eissport der Hitler-Jugend Prag 1942 Here's an interesting badge I recently acquired and in my opinion, not a plain old tinnie, as it might appear. Note the traces of a gilt finish. Some slight zinc pest but nothing terrible. Comments welcome. Best, Toby.

An early DRGM painted zinc HJ membership badge. What do you think? Thanks

Hi, guys. I wish to show you the new acquisition. M2/27 Zinc HJ buckle in very good condition. Yours faithfully, Ilya

This is a thread showing the various materials used to manufacture HJ buckles. This only shows the material and does not get into any of the sub types or variations of them. I will start individual threads for each type where we can get into all the variations and oddities The HJ buckles...

I would like to kick start some new thread activity, and would love to know if anyone has any special requests of a particular type or variation of buckle which you would like to see or discuss.. just reply here and I will see what i can dig out of the collection and get some good threads...

Hi Everyone, I'm checking into "Blut und Ehre" HJ belt buckles, and was wondering which kind would be best to buy. By this I mean, steel, aluminum or zinc, or any particular RZM code to look for? I didn't know if one style is early vs mid to late war, or if there are fakes (and I know...

Admin edit: Subsequent to this thread in 2016 a HJ-Wiki was installed on the forum. This includes a page dedicated to the HJ knife which now includes a lot of the information given by Mike below plus a load more. The aim of this thread is to show which areas need to be examined when...

The earliest dated HJ with a zinc hilt that I've seen so far is 1938. If you have an HJ with a zinc hilt and it's dated, please show it here (any date). I would like to find out if there are any examples with an earlier date than 1938. I would like to exclude any G. Gräfrath, RZM M7-30-1936...

Hello together. I'm new in this Forum. I habe a Question about this Leder sport. I have never see this make, with zinc between 2 shells. Maybe is is OK for B-Variants. I know the leader-sport with Number only in Heavy-Metal ( Buntemetall ) Regards from Germany Frank