Not good imo. Looks like a Taiwanese made repro

Is this pewter or brass?   Are the holes drilled or "punched"?

Avery impressive collection of ultra rare items..   I will try to post some of my items soon.

Plus I've never been there, so it'll give me a good reason to visit. last time I was on a WW2 sub was way back in the 60's or 70's. There was one moored over at Salem ,MA, I think it was the USS Sea Dog. Hope all goes well, and thanks again to Leigh for the Battleship Cove suggestion. Plus I'll finally get a look at two PT Boats. Never realized they actually carried up to 3000 gallons of 100 octane aviation gas to fuel those 3 powerful V-12 Packard engines.

I ran across this item on Ebay and wanted to get some input.  Does anyone know if this is a genuine Vietnam War period made patch?     Thanks in advance.

When I had my estate liquidation in PA I was finding several unregistered weapons a year. Especially MP40 and French Chauchats. Over a 20 year period I found 7 Chauchats and a maxim with quadrupod amongst others.  

I think Jerry was simply ribbing you, since you found a score in MKE.

S& S bough out thr remaining Bannerman stock in the 1960's or 70's, when Hogan sold out.  I have the 1938 catalog and the 1964 price list and nothing like this shows up.

Sorry please could you translate this text a few ? LCDR is Lieutenant Commander?  what does mean the rest? MCVS ??? 10/12/43  /03/  10/07/43 ???   Was him a Doctor in the Navy and during 1943(appears there)and those USNR men were in the Navy only during WW2 years ??? Thanks for your help Cheers Fernando 

W. Stokes Kirk did make "restamps" of many insignias.  Currently S & S Firearms has good repros of this plate for sale on their website..