Late War Hollow wound badges

[leon21]

Your opinions please on the late war pressed hollow silver and gold wound badges, experts seem to be divided on this issue.

Iv'e read a very small number of pressed silver badges were thought to be made by the firm of Schickle, which resulted in the

loss of his L.D.O.Licence. Some theories also suggest a few late war gold and silver badges being made from pressed badges

(originally intended to be painted black). Again, because a pressed badge in silver or gold violated the terms of a L.D.O.

Licence it is speculated that these badges were either prototypes, (made for consideration by the National Material Control

office-Reichzeugmeisterei ) for issuing consideration or were made in a last ditch effort to fill contracts during the material shortages

at wars end. If the later is true, then R.Z.M obviously were no longer in control of manufacturing at wars end, and firms were doing

whatever they could to fill cotracts and get paid.

 

Heres a couple of examples Iv'e come across... ( would you buy one if they came your way )?.

[Kenny Andrew]

Hi Leon , I would say both those badges were Black grade with the finish removed.

[Greg]

I agree with Kenny, Black with finish taken off

[Kenny Andrew]

The first one looks black to me with finish removed , only downside to that the verdigris,however verdigris can be made

 

The name verdigris comes from the Middle English vertegrez, from the Old French verte grez, an alteration of vert-de-Grèce ("green of Greece"). The modern French spelling of this word is vert-de-gris. Since it was used as a pigment in paintings and other art objects (as green color), it was required by artists in Greece. It was originally made by hanging copper plates over hot vinegar in a sealed pot until a green crust formed on the copper. Another method of obtaining verdigris pigment, used in the Middle Ages, was to attach copper strips to a wooden block with acetic acid, then bury the sealed block in dung. A few weeks later the pot was dug up and the verdigris scraped off. In eighteenth-century Montpellier, France, it was manufactured in household cellars, "where copper plates were stacked in clay pots filled with distilled wine." The verdigris was scraped off weekly by the women of the household.[3] The chemical reaction exhibited between wine and copper to produce verdigris may be related to wine's own oxidization process. Another method, used in the early nineteenth century, had to do with reacting copper sulfate solution with solutions of lead, barium, or calcium acetate. Their sulfates are insoluble, forming precipitates and leaving the copper acetate in solution.

 

The second one is quite clearly black.It is possible it happened as Spanish wounds badges continued to be issued early on in the war,but how could you ever prove it?