Steve Nick
Well-known member
I bought this piece many years ago from a C.E.F. badge collector who had no idea what it was. Someone, possibly him, soldered what look to me to be a couple of standard type copper lugs such as you’d see on a C.E.F. cap badge onto the piece.
My research leads me to believe this wappen device would have been intended for an officer’s front plate for the Saxon duchies with the Fuerst bandeau. Infantry Regiment # 95 based on the voided crown and the laurel leaves and berries on both sides of the Saxon shield?
It looks like the original “posts”? that I assume would have been threaded, were removed for some unknown reason.
Regardless, I recognized it as belonging to an Imperial German front plate and bought it for a pretty reasonable price.
Question is. I’d like to have the copper lugs removed but I don’t want to take a chance on melting the silver. (No part of it is magnetic). Probably best left to a jeweler? Is it worth the expense?
My research leads me to believe this wappen device would have been intended for an officer’s front plate for the Saxon duchies with the Fuerst bandeau. Infantry Regiment # 95 based on the voided crown and the laurel leaves and berries on both sides of the Saxon shield?
It looks like the original “posts”? that I assume would have been threaded, were removed for some unknown reason.
Regardless, I recognized it as belonging to an Imperial German front plate and bought it for a pretty reasonable price.
Question is. I’d like to have the copper lugs removed but I don’t want to take a chance on melting the silver. (No part of it is magnetic). Probably best left to a jeweler? Is it worth the expense?