skull and bones, button die

[stuka f]

Kris: I see an occasion here, for you to provide us perhaps with some information as to how the wappen on our pickelhauben were stamped out. Could you describe the process? Anyone else out there who might have an actual die for a wappen in their collection?

Here is a very good example of an insigna that needed to be cut out by hand!
Thise was done with a file that was inserted in a hole that was drilled before at an emplacement that needed be cut out.
Thise Belgian navy cap badge was only partialy done! A finished badge took days of work, from cupper plate to finished insigna!
The insigna's on the out side, are left as how they look when they come out of the die.
The force and friction of the the machine that pound them was so high that temperature rises so they burned!
The one in the middle was treated. The treatment is a acid and a base bath they are going in, in order to make them shiny again!
Generally thise is done when the pin's have been added, because they burn again during that procedure.
The middle one was washed to be showed!
Some times the cupper plate is heaten artificialy before pound in the die, but that is a methode used when no descent positive matrix is available.

 

[Khukri]

Kris,

Great job !

Thank you,
Francis

 

[stuka f]

Just got a answer to my question on a other forum.
Here is a Freikorps Werwolf button,I found on that forum and I added it on my initial pic;