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1938 vw workers badge

https://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/threads/45669/1938-vw-workers-badge

warb ·

thought id post a pic for interest, a mate just brought this back from a market in Belgium, bit of a story behind it. apparently they where worn by the workers in the late 30's .. any one seen one of these before? any comments?..





the guy at the market said,' put in your pocket and dont pull it out till you get home'.... wonder why?..

typ-fre ·

hait!

:P

dom

vw54 ·

yeah got one myself... but mines a repo which was made back in about 1990, good copies

Origionals good for a few bucks.

warb ·

Dave, you think this one may be repo?. how do you tell? .. it looks very clean for its apparent age.

CAFFINEPUSHERMAN ·

one got sold on egay a couple of weeks ago

kroozzn63 ·

how cool

VWFOOL ·

thats an OG warb, i had a repro on my dash grill at the shootout, they look plenty different

crewcabconnection ·

the repro ones taste like Chocolate

barls ·

nice piece ryan its a good find

warb ·

cheers for that, looks very different hey.

warb ·

also, found this one.. ugh.



http://militaria-net.co.uk/oscommerce/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/60_43/products_id/51?osCsid=9a6bd70a84d1f4c0c668690efef3516d

vw54 ·

the origionals were cast in Puter metal, so there light, and the attach pin was crimmped on.

the repros from the ninties where cast in a similar metal as well.

The one you have pictured looks like its been stamp from sheet metal ??? only guessing

theres an artical in VW Trends April 1991

[ Edited on 7-11-2005 by vw54 ]

vw54 ·

and the rear

vw54 ·

and there call a Corner Stone Pin to celebrate the laying on the foundation stone

2443TT ·

"Grundsteinlegung Desvolkswagenwerkes mai 1938" translation to english is

"laying of the foundation stone of the Volkswagen work May 1938"