My new HJ Golden Leader Sports Badge

Very often they claim that this badge is made of Bronze. Is there anything written in period text that it is fire golded Bronze?
 
Interesting take, as far as I know they are made out of fire gilded buntmetal . At what ratio, no idea.
 
Yes, buntmetall is a general German term for copper based alloys. It' s very difficult to say what base metal they used if its not specified in a period reference.
 
Next problem: the enamel. In the old refererence books they speak from dark bleu enamel. Later articles etc. speak of black enamel. I put them underneath the microscope and look: first picture is from a clearly black DVG Westmark (Lothr) - badge, second picture is from the Führer Sportbadge... What's the opinion?

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Very nice addition. Thanks for sharing with us. I agree very dark blue...like the midnight blue tux I wore in college years ago.
 
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