

| Subject: | 1938 VolkswagenWerk Groundbreaking Pins |
| From: | Joe Clark |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:54 +0000 |
Hi all: Picked up a couple of these over the past month and am wondering how to tell the repros from the originals. I suspect I paid a bit much but then my brain shut down when I ran across them. These are the pins with the Beetle silhouette (3/4 view) with swastika-in-cogwheel (labor front logo) rising like a sun behind it. Lettering is incised in base and filled with red paint; the rest of the pin/badge is unpainted metal - pewter looking. Most excellent items; never seen one in person. Odd that I found two within two weeks of each other, one in the nazi/wwII junk section in an antique store in Fernandina Beach, FL; the other at the good old Tallahassee Flea Market. If they're real, I got 'em for a song; if not, boy did they see me coming....:^) Joe Joe Clark *YOUR MESSAGE HERE* jclark@supernet.net "Spill the Wine! http://www.supernet.net/~jclark/ Dig that URL!" Whimsy by the Truckload -Eric Burdon
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