How many makers of the Hitler Youth Golden honour badge were there?

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Just found this one
B-46507 from RZM M1/52

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and this one too!
RZM M1/78 17910B

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M1/78 1976

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I am pretty sure that there is another digit in front of it, possibly a 9.
 
Yes, there's definitely another digit hiding under that pin :thumb:
 
The seller gave this number however I think you are right now that I look carefully
 
hello
badge 61478 with a with an added chain

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An unassigned badge on its original card, presumably for the manufacturer's archives, as well as another unfinished one : RZM M1/49

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Thanks for posting this B. My alarm bells are going off... The MM is mimicking the early RZM 15 Hofstätter MM on the HJ honour badges up to around award serial 40000. My research shows me that there was only one manufacturer of the HJ honour badge in the beginning. This was Hofstätter who marked his badges with either FHB or, more commonly, RZM 15. Production was not meeting demand by 1936 and a contract was awarded to M1/78 Paulmann u. Krone who went on to produce around 55000 badges. M1/49 Baumeister is first observed on honour badges in the six-figure range and by then of course they had a correct MM with M1 - not "RZM 49". So, a Baumeister badge marked RZM 49 on a card dated 1942 is an impossible combination. Something fishy is going on with those badges.
 
Beautiful demonstration! I admit I would have been fooled.
 
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