Teno Honor Badge 1921 # 1119
The Technical Emergency Service or Teno established in 1919 was a
voluntary organization that would standby in case of an internal threat
in Germany.
These awards can be found with dates from
1919-1923 and were actually not instituted until 1934, making the Honor
Badge a retroactive award slated for long time members with significant
contributions to this branch of service. Award recipients would have to
have been a member of the Teno for the years 1919-23.
The
award is bronze and it is estimated that 5500 were awarded, a rather
small amount and not a common badge with the most common dates being
1922 and 1923 from what I can tell.
It would appear there is
no correlation from the year of the badge and the assigned number of the
recipient so once can find a 4 digit on an earlier badge and a lower
digit on a later badge, why this is I do not know.
In some
cases the boxes will be numbered to the bottom of the box and some even
named, in this case the box while period in my mind is not accepted as
an original Teno box. The badge has been in there a long time and
actually locks in pretty tight but it is what it is.
Badge is
an unmarked example numbered 270 and the condition is very nice with
magnification showing minor flaws. Nice badge and quite rare.
(Teno Honor Badge 1921)
The Technical Emergency Service or Teno established in 1919 was a
voluntary organization that would standby in case of an internal threat
in Germany.
These awards can be found with dates from
1919-1923 and were actually not instituted until 1934, making the Honor
Badge a retroactive award slated for long time members with significant
contributions to this branch of service. Award recipients would have to
have been a member of the Teno for the years 1919-23.
The
award is bronze and it is estimated that 5500 were awarded, a rather
small amount and not a common badge with the most common dates being
1922 and 1923 from what I can tell.
It would appear there is
no correlation from the year of the badge and the assigned number of the
recipient so once can find a 4 digit on an earlier badge and a lower
digit on a later badge, why this is I do not know.
In some
cases the boxes will be numbered to the bottom of the box and some even
named, in this case the box while period in my mind is not accepted as
an original Teno box. The badge has been in there a long time and
actually locks in pretty tight but it is what it is.
Badge is
an unmarked example numbered 270 and the condition is very nice with
magnification showing minor flaws. Nice badge and quite rare.
(Teno Honor Badge 1921)