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He's a reservist - a member of the Stammabteilung.

Thank you for that

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[attachmentid=39635]hello, does anyone know why this officer is wearing grey collar patches?? photo taken in 1937, these patches are mentioned in the article and price list Nr 3, published 1938

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Is it meant to be a Turkish Star?

I dont know, as far as I do know, Rommel did'nt go to turkey, so I presume he nove had any awards from neutral Turkey, anyone know?????

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I have the book, and I did notice that the swords are different on some of the pictures, but I believe that it is known that Rommel had several uniforms and a man of his stature could have as many ribbon bars as he wanted made. The author claims that a friend of his actually owns a ribbon bar worn by Rommel. I persoanally believe that only about 11000th of accepted authentic militaria is really real. If this is true who knows about Rommels stuff. I read his book the Rommel Papers and in it he claims to rather wear a plain uniform anyway with no rank or insignia. It is my theory that he was worryed he would be captured and thought maybe he would not be recognized in a plain uniform.- Dan

Well, would he not have enough ribbon bars made in one go to fit all his uniforms??? in any case, I think his widow would have had all those items given to her after he was poisand, I dont think anyone would have dared to loot Rommels body, would they??

Anyway, somehting to type about for a few minuets!!!!

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Hello, anyone with the book shown here should take a look at Rommels ribbon bar, and compare the "Hindenburg cross' ribbon swords, they dont match.

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hello, I have some ribbon bar luft eagles and swords for exchange, what I am after is the spange for the 2nd class iron cross, off ww 1

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm for some reason this browser does not go to 'my pictures' where I store my scans, so email me and I can send these scans to you.

Is that orange/brown piping around the top of the cuffs? Can't say I've seen this before.

Regards,

Pete

hello once more, ineric lefevre's book 'la wehrmacht' page 124, bottom left hand corner, is a photo. of a piped field service tunic, showing white piping around the collar, down the front closure, and around the top of the cuffs, will do a scan if you want one/

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I like the volunteer Red Cross/Fire Brigade sew on up top! That "Stars And Stripes" backed Bavarian pre-1934 pair is indeed interesting-- the positioning of the stars would indicate a 50 star (1959+) flag, unless this is a narrower strip simply of an endless run of stars... or something left over from 46 star days!

Hello, all items in the scan are as I bought them, very many years ago, I dont buy much these days, lack of the folding stuff !!!

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I have never seen a parade tunic (waffenrock) with fron pockets.

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dammit, front pockets

pikey

Hi Rick -

No name label, unfortunately. I've been fishing around the various forums to get some sort of composite feeling on this - I am more concerned with the fact it only has the one breast badge - I would expect at least a Flak badge on a Major, as well as the screw-back award...

Don

I have never seen a parade tunic (waffenrock) with fron pockets.

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sorry! a FEW minutes!

hello once more, herewith scan of backs and fronts, can always sent send larger image vie your own email

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Hello, I'll do some more scans, please give me a dew minuets

sorry! a FEW minutes!

Indeed... an interesting collection! What ribbons are on the front of the "US Flag"?

Paul

Hello, I'll do some more scans, please give me a dew minuets

[attachmentid=37379]Hello, just thought I' add a scan of my very small collection of medal ribbon bars.

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Hi,

The bottom Signal ones look good to me.

Gary B

hello,

ll three sets are repro

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Those are some good repros! A couple of them would have me fooled... Thank you for the picks.

What about these make them fake? Do you know any information on these?

REgards

Paul

Hello there really are some really bad firms out ther, romise everything, so money is sent, receive cr*p in the post, best leave it to someone else to get thier fingers burnt, three of them owe me money or goods, thier government could care less, these firms dont answer emails, I'm now on isoprolol, blood presure tablets.

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Hi Pikestaff

Welcome to the forum! I would love to see close ups of both front and back of each of the tabs! They seem to be very good repros!!! Do you have any background on them(where they were made, who distributes them to dealers, etc)

Thank you again for your contribution to this thread

Regards

Paul

hello, herewith some repro stuff to look at if anyone needs a bigger scan, email me and I'll send one

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