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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
1909 Los Angeles 'mystery' Badge.
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Brass badge with "Souvenir" hanger. 1.5" diameter, "1900 Jaehrige gedenkfeier der hermanns - schlacht im teutoburger walde"//
"Los Angeles, Cal. 15 August 1909". This is the first of these we've seen in decades.
Anyone speak....Teutonic?
On closer inspection the guy looks like a Viking. One of your distant ancestors odinthor?
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Commemorates the victory of Hermann the Cheruscan, AKA Arminius, over the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. There's a giant statue of the guy in New Ulm, Minnesota, known to locals as "Hermann the German." There was a fraternal order called the "Sons of Hermann."
Cheers,
Earl