HJ Golden Honour Badge M1/120 - Opinions please

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Hi guys,

What do you think of this M1/120 honour badge ?



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Thank you for reviewing!

- Leo
 

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Hi Leo,

The award number is way too low for an M1/120. A badge with that award serial number would originally have been made by M1/78 Paulmann und Crone.

I have been tracking these badges for years now and can confirm the information here:

How many makers of the Hitler Youth Golden honour badge were there? | HJ Honour badges

This is the running list of Hitler Youth Golden honour badge makers. As new confirmed makers come in they will be added to this post. Note: to be included into this list the maker must be shown in a primary source and/or the badge must be fully discussed. Last update: 24th of Sept 2024...
www.hj-research.com www.hj-research.com
 
Thank you. But how can we know. is there paperwork ?
How can it be that the badge is 100% correct but the number is too low ?
 
No probs. Your badge can be dated to late-1939 at the earliest because that was when the barrel safety catch was introduced. The serial number on your badge was within a batch of M1/78 badges sent to Gebiet Hessen-Nassau and the awardees would have been presented with those badges in 1936/7. It is therefore impossible for your badge to have that number unless it is a replacement for the lost M1/78 badge. However, replacement badges by M1/120 were marked with the original award serial number followed by a B (post-1940 all replacements were simply marked with B). Your badge is not marked as a replacement and it has a number that is way too low for the badge to be original in that configuration and by that maker but assuming the badge is genuine there are two possible explanations that I can think of:

This is indeed a replacement for the owner's original badge but M1/120 somehow didn't add the B to the award serial to denote that it is a replacement badge. You can see an example of a correctly-marked, pre-1939 M1/120 replacement here. Post-1939 replacements only had the B.

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someone with no knowledge of the above information stamped that number onto the badge at some point.
 
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