That pendant looks great.
but I noticed some advertisements which appear to be showing the Arbeiterjugend pin may have been in use as early as 1929.
Attachment 1 shows the front cover of the February 1929 issue of the magazine 'HJZ - Kampfblatt schaffender Jugend' and attachment 2 shows the advertisement for HJ clothing and equipment from the 'Reichswirtschaftsstelle der HJ' on its back page. As you can see there is a badge listed there. I have a few other HJ magazines from around then and the badge continues to be offered into 1930 which is the time when Assmann was apparently making these unofficially.
Never looked into it, but if it is in a 1929 Magazine, then it will surely be from then and older, the vast majority, well to be honest, every one that i have ever seen (mag) contains old stock, with a few new bits and bobs added, but on the whole, no period magazine is helpful in determing the exact date of any pictured item. I also have early catalogs the show both the First HJ badge (Arbeiterjugend) and the new Diamond HJ badge together on the same page, both advertised as Hitlerjugend-abzeichen. The Arbeiterjugend is advertised as
'For the Cap' and the diamond badges as
'To pin on' there are also other badges in the same magazine for offer that were prohibited in mid 1932, along with later and earlier ones...
The
Richter Catalog that i mentioned above is also a great example of a Old-new catalog, showing some items dated 1933-4, yet all the prices are still in Mark, and the vast majority of the items are from the mid-late 20`s.So i was think that catalogs were reprinted on a regular basis, with a few new products added here and there.
In General though, the period from 1925-1933 was chaotic, (despite the ZM ) if you read the first 50-60 RZM Mitteilungsblätter from Mid 34 onwards, you can see just how much was going wrong even then a year after the NSDAP took over. The RZM announcements from the start of 1935 are also a clear indication of how the RZM tried to stop the black market dealings, the illegal hawkers, the Fakes, frauds, the RZM representatives that were dealing on the side, the Jewish middle men who according to an RZM announcement were somehow involved in producing and selling inferior products (IMHO just propaganda)...
Also not to forget that they did not have television back then, and not every house had a phone, so any Communication of new items, rules etc would have differed greatly between the various Gaus and areas within Germany. Some would have been stricter than others as well i guess. It is though, a time period that really interests me with relationship to the NSDAP and their struggle to Control the NS items.
