Date:         Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:54 +0000
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Joe Clark" <jclark@supernet.net>
Subject:      1938 VolkswagenWerk Groundbreaking Pins

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