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WW2 German cloth insignia, cap eagles, collar tabs, shoulder boards, breast eagles, sleeve eagles, armbands, flags, banners, pennants, rank chevrons, specialty sleeve badges, etc. |
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| Schutzpolizei Wachtmeister, Single Slip On Shoulder Board & Single Collar Tab Set | |
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5GC-69. The shoulder board has bright silver cord, along two sides, with brown cloth “V’s” and brown cord center, with Schutzpolizei green wool backing; the backside has a long narrow, green wool attaching tab. The front of the board is in excellent condition with some insignificant silver thread pulls; the backside has overall moth nips that do not actually completely penetrate through the fabric, as well as four actual, moderate to large size moth holes. The machine embroidered collar tab has a silver top with Police green, background and a silver/gray aluminum twisted silver cord border edge; the collar tab is machine sewn onto Police green wool backing with a buckram insert. The front of the collar tab is in near excellent condition, showing extremely light and insignificant signs of age; the cord piping has a gray, lightly tarnished appearance, and has come partly unstitches in spots along the edges of the tab. The backside has heavy mothing on the wool backing, (the mothing does not show from the front); the buckram stiffener is in excellent condition. Overall the backsides would rate about Vg- because of the mothing; the front of the board and tab are near excellent and display very nicely together; (no mothing can be seen from the front). A nice example. $39.00 SOLD |
| Luftwaffe Medical Oberleutnant Collar Tab - Single Right Side | |
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5GC-70BLC. Very dark blue wool collar tab with two, hand embroidered, silver aluminum, gull wings within a, half, oak leaf and acorn wreath; the outside edge of the tab has twisted silver aluminum piping. The front of the tab is in excellent condition; it exhibits insignificant signs of age, no wear and no soil. There are two, very small and insignificant surface moth bites near the top edge, (nothing at all of a seriously nature). The silver wire on the gulls and wreath is very lightly aged and is 98% intact. The twisted silver piping has darkened slightly from age; it is intact and is firmly sewn onto the edges of the tab. The backside is in excellent condition and has a classic buckram stiffener that is fully intact. Unused. Excellent. $30.00 SOLD |
| Luftwaffe Medical Leutnant Collar Tab - Single Right Side | |
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5GC-71BLC. Dark blue wool collar tab with one, hand embroidered, silver aluminum, gull wing within a, half, oak leaf and acorn wreath; the outside edge of the tab has twisted silver aluminum piping. The front of the tab is in excellent condition however, this example has four very noticeable and one no so noticeable moth holes and bites; it exhibits light signs of age, no wear and no soil. The silver wire on the gulls and wreath is very lightly aged and is 99.9% intact. The twisted silver piping has darkened slightly from age; it is intact and is tightly sewn onto the edges of the tab. The backside is heavily mothed and has a classic buckram stiffener that is fully intact. Unused. About Vg. $24.00 SOLD |
| Kriegsmarine Obermaschinenmaat Enlisted Career Rating, Machinist Mate/Engine Personnel – For White Kriegsmarine Uniform | |
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5GC-77. 3-3/4-inch oval, white cotton twill patch, heavily machine embroidered, depicting a dark blue cogwheel superimposed on a dark blue anchor, with one dark blue rank “V” for the rank of Obermaschinenmaat. This type of insignia was worn on the left sleeve of the white uniform. The white twill has darkened a bit over the years; it exhibits extremely light age, no wear and light, even, overall soil from storage, (nothing serious). The design is, tightly machine embroidered using thin dark blue thread. About Vg+. $20.00 |
| Army Major, Motorized Reconnaissance Units, Copper Brown Waffenfarbe, Single Sew In Shoulder Board | |
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5GC-79LC. Braided, matte silver, aluminum top, signifying the rank of Major; the board has a light copper brown wool underlay. The top braids are in excellent condition, with just a hint of age from handling; the light copper brown wool underlay exhibits very minor and insignificant signs of age from handling, as well. This specimen is a sew in variety with a finished end. Appears to be unused. A beauty. VERY SCARCE. Excellent. $59.00 |
| Hitler Youth Rank Pip For DJ & Marine-HJ | |
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5GC-81. A small silver gray thread rank pip, machine embroidered in the center of a, 2-3/8-inch diameter, very dark blue wool patch. Before1938 this insignia was worn on the lower left sleeve but was raised to the upper right sleeve in May 1939 it was worn by the DJ as “Jungenschaftsfuhrer;” the Marine-DJ rank is, kameradschaftsfuhrer.” There is overall moth tracking on the wool knap, (because of the dark color it is not easily seen and not a particular detraction), there are no actual moth holes. The reverse is backed with black, lightweight, open weave material. There are small specks of paper attached to the backside that are remnants of an RZM tag. Appears to be unused. Vg. $12.00 |
| M38 Einheitslitze, (General Wear Litze), Enlisted Man Collar Tab On Bluish-Dark Green Wool Backing – Single Right Side. This Style Was Authorized For All Army Branches Of The Service, (No Waffenfarbe) | |
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5GC-82. Field gray, machine-woven, litzen with
bluish-dark green center stripes and bluish-dark green space between; the
litzen is sewn onto bluish-dark green wool backing patch with buckram
stiffener. Light age from handling; the reverse has remnants of glue and
some black paper from being in a scrapbook. Unused. Near excellent. $19.00
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| Luftwaffe NCO Feldwebel - Flying Troops & Paratroopers Shoulder Boards – A Very Slightly Mismatched Pair | |
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5GC-83. Luftwaffe blue/gray wool top with, matte-silver NCO tresse on three sides and golden/yellow rayon, (artificial silk), piping; each board has a matching silver colored pip. The underside is constructed of Luftwaffe blue/gray wool, as are the attaching tongues; there is a 5/8-inch wide strip of gray cotton, “HBT,” (herringbone twill), material sewn along the full length of the backside to provide strength and body to the board. These boards exhibit moderate to near heavy signs of age with moderate soil, as well as some light areas of white deterioration on the silver tress, (nothing serious). The yellow piping is moderately soiled form use and the pips have aged to a gray finish with very minor signs of silver in the crevices of the design. These boards are slightly mismatched but they came to me together and I have to believe that they have always been together; they have the same age, same wear and soil and were apparently used as a pair; there are very subtle differences in the boards that are not too evident at a casual glance; the most obvious difference is that one board is slightly larger than the other and the yellow piping on one board extends further into the tongue area than the other board. If these boards were installed on a uniform, the differences would not be obvious at all. No mothing. A decent set. Vg-. $59.00 SOLD |
| NOTE: The following five armbands were all liberated from the BMW, (Bavarian Motor Works), plant in the city of Allach, Germany, which was A Sub-Camp of the Dachau Concentration Camp and just outside Munich . The armbands are all Werkluftschutz / Luftschutz related and are associated with air raid protection for the plant. By the end of the war there were About 20,000 workers at the Allach BMW plant, including thousands of forced laborers from German over-run countries, 3000 Allied Prisoners of War and over 5000 concentration camp inmates, many from nearby Dachau. The Allach BMW plant produced and tested aircraft engines and conducted rocket research there throughout the war. Allach is also the town where the SS Allach porcelain factory was located. | |
| Werkluftschutz Senior Leader Armband | |
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5GC-84RA. Approximately 7-1/4-inch wide x 3-3/4-inch high, fine blue linen armband, with joined ends, and a separately applied, machine stitched, rank pip in the center, as well as separately sewn white stripes on the top and bottom edges. The armband is in near excellent condition; it exhibits extremely light signs of age and a tiny bit of soil on the stripes, as well as one tiny insect damage hole on one of the side creases; there are also several very small, white spots adjacent to the hole that also appear to be part of the insect damage, (nothing too serious). SCARCE. Unused. Near excellent. $75.00 SOLD |
| Werkluftschutz Senior Messenger Armband | |
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5GC-84a. Approximately 7-1/4-inch wide x 4-inch high, fine blue linen armband, with joined ends, and white chain stitched letter, “M,” in the center and separately sewn white stripes on the top and bottom edge. The armband is in overall excellent condition; it exhibits extremely light signs of age and extremely minor, and insignificant, dusty soil from storage. SCARCE. Unused. About excellent. $65.00 |
| Werkluftschutz Messenger Armband | |
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5GC-84b. Approximately 7-7/8-inch wide x 4-1/2-inch high, fine blue linen armband, with joined ends, and a white letter, “M,” in the in the center; the “M” is constructed from one continuous piece of ½-inch wide white linen material, which has been folded and machine sewn on the blue field. The armband is in overall excellent condition with extremely light and insignificant signs of age, lightly wrinkled from storage. Has a crude, homemade, appearance. Unique. SCARCE. Unused. Excellent. $55.00 |
| Werkluftschutz Air Defense Organizer Armband | |
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5GC-84c. Approximately 7-1/2-inch wide x 3-7/8-inch high, fine blue linen armband, with joined ends, and white chain stitched letter, “O,” in the center. The armband is in overall Vg condition; it exhibits light signs of age, extremely minor soil from handling, some very small and minor catches in the material on the front, as well as many small insect damage holes along the left-hand crease. SCARCE. Unused. About vg, $55.00 |
| Werkschutze – Factory Guard Armband | |
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5GC-84d. Approximately 7-1/2-inch wide x 3-7/8-inch high, fine red linen armband, with joined ends, and white chain stitched letter, “W;” (Werkschutze), in the center. The armband is in overall excellent condition; it exhibits extremely light signs of age, as well as few very small and insignificant spots of soil from storage. SCARCE. Unused. Excellent. $55.00 |