Study of Fake M1/70 HJ Honour badges (HJ Ehrenzeichen)
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Here is a back side of the badge and the better photo of front side.
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Thanks for the better pics. Added to the list.
And here is another. 9436 found on Alexander Historical Auctions:
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I joined this forum recently because I love the HJ and DJ stuff, I've been collecting for 25 years and most other forums if active at all done touch on this subject or cowtow to the sponsors. This exposition on fake RZM M1/70 badges is a good thing. I was thinking of buying one recently and started doing more research on them when I come upon this thread and to be honest I might have bought this one if Bob the owner of Collector to collector militaria would have responded to any emails, thankfully he did not and after more research I learned that RZM M1/70 wasn't permitted to make badges by RZM after 1935. It's sickening how many of these are trying to be passed off, but check out this one here. It is marked 9193 on the back... These are convincing fakes, if it wasn't known about the RZM discrepancy would there be any other issues with this badge? The 1's in the numbering are suspect to me also, often German 1's have no base so to speak like on this number punching.
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A. Kirchen
Regards,
A. Kirchen
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Hi and welcome to the forum. Thanks for adding this one to the database of M1/70 fakes. Anyone trying to pass off one of these M1/70 honour badges as genuine needs to know this:
It is demonstrably impossible for an original HJ honour badge with an award serial number in the 8000-9000 range to be from any maker other than Hoffstätter. The only exceptions are replacement badges but these would have a B in front of the award serial number i.e. B9445.
Hoffstätter made all of the badges in the 8000-9000 range because he had the sole contract at the time (I posted the primary sources for this back in 2019). He marked his honour badges with "RZM 15". For years now I have been tracking HJ honour badge serial numbers on surviving badges as part of this project
9341. A lovely original by Hoffstätter.
...but just six serials away we have:
9335 purporting to be by M1/70. Impossible. The original 9335 was made by Hoffstätter, not M1/70. The real 9335 will be marked with "RZM 15".
It is demonstrably impossible for an original HJ honour badge with an award serial number in the 8000-9000 range to be from any maker other than Hoffstätter. The only exceptions are replacement badges but these would have a B in front of the award serial number i.e. B9445.
Hoffstätter made all of the badges in the 8000-9000 range because he had the sole contract at the time (I posted the primary sources for this back in 2019). He marked his honour badges with "RZM 15". For years now I have been tracking HJ honour badge serial numbers on surviving badges as part of this project
9341. A lovely original by Hoffstätter.
...but just six serials away we have:
9335 purporting to be by M1/70. Impossible. The original 9335 was made by Hoffstätter, not M1/70. The real 9335 will be marked with "RZM 15".