Guest Rick Research Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Lieutenant General boards for service tunic and something like a shirt, raincoat, or field uniform. Note that with the oaks and laurels, there is a front (laurels) to these Soviet style rank insignia:Left shoulder on the 4 sided board, right for the field type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Since these all came out with the three Soviet ribbon bars with Cuban ribbons:http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtop...ost&p=87266I suspect these belonged to that officer as well.Underlay of the sewn down tunic boards is standard Soviet red. The field type board does NOT have the usual Soviet-style tongue, but rather TWO sets of loops at shoulder and near the collar end, suggesting these were slipped over plain buttoned shirt epaulettes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Now for the ??? part. Here is a removable cap band, green woven material with a standard Soviet M1969 type generals' bullion wreath and a ? state security/? border guards/? customs service/ ? police/ ? procurator's office/ ??? cockade, which would have been worn under the Cuban state arms on the top of the cap:The military (Revolutionary Armed Forces) seem to have had a different shaped wreath and the F.A.R. initials, from what little I've been able to find in these Final Days before the stampede for Caracas condos begins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 With these worn insignia came a pair of bullion generals' lapel laurels:On Soviet M1954+ generals' tunics, these were directly embroidered onto the collars, and these too seem to have been hacked off a uniform-- note the remnants of what would have been the red collar piping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Very impressive set, Rick!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Here's a comparison between a service tunic board for a Soviet Lieutenant General and the Cuban derivative: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Brought back up top-- the cap band is still making me toss and turn nights, wondering WHAT it can actually be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I am thinking Judicial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Still no clue what organization the cap band represents! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pride Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Brought back up top-- the cap band is still making me toss and turn nights, wondering WHAT it can actually be? this is the first time that i see this kind of cap band.. did you find new info about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Nope. Years and years and... no clues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I am no expert of Cuban militaria..but the cockade in the center of the embroidery is the exact copy of 1960s Soviet judicial ones (which are mainly composed as well by crossed swords behind a shield). Regards, GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Still trying to figure out if the brass insignia does indeed fit in the middle of the removable cap band's bullion wreath. The round brass backing probably went UNDERNEATH the cap band rather than on top the way I put it for display. Any new knowledge out there about what the cap band is and what goes inside its wreath? Or what the brass insignia that LOOKS like it might (and came together) is actually for? (Ican't believe it's been SEVEN years since Fidel had fatal peritonitis and he's still (?) alive....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riker87 Posted August 28, 2013 Share Posted August 28, 2013 The cap band is very strange. The inside looks like the branch insignia of a judge advocate. For me, it is indefinable. But one thing is certain: it's not Cuban. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riker87 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Hello guys, here my new "General de Brigada" sleeve epaulettes. They were worn by Brigadier General José Quevedo. This insignias in this form were introduced in 1988 and they're are still in use. I think my epaulettes were produced in the first half of the 1990's. Another interesting cuban Militaria you'll find on my side. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Nice!! Are these sewn on or to the slide onto the shirt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riker87 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Thanks Paul! This epaulettes will slide onto the shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Very nice pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achern Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 How do you guys even get things like these? Haven't had any luck here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riker87 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 How do you guys even get things like these? Haven't had any luck here! I've got my sources arround the world. And I've got the luck to know some guys in Cuba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Have you any new items lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riker87 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Yes, I have: a 80s BDU and a Boarder Guards service uniform of the 70s/80s too. I will upload some pics of them here on gmic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riker87 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Now, I've got some updates in my general's epaulettes collection: I've received a pair of shoulder boards for the everyday uniform (unfortunately not related) and a brown pair of slip-ons also for the everyday uniform. All the epaulettes are still in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achern Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Beautiful. I wish I could get a pair of Castro's boards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riker87 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Hello fellows, after a long time a short update: Here' are my new epaulettes of a Division General. They are absolutely unused and from the 1980's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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