Richard Houf

Sir,

I would like to know if there is a source for repro Cuban Army uniforms and rank insignia ?.Please reprond to my private email.

thanks,

Richard Houf

Richard,

I do not think that Regal Uniforma Collector regularly visits this site anymore. I can perhaps answer your questions. First, the Tsar's shoulder boards are real. I have seen them in person and they are wonderful and could have belonged to no other person.

Regarding the dragoon enlisted straps, it depends on what period you are talking about. A wartime example from this regiment would have had a shoulder strap in the same color as the tunic/Gymnastiorka with the regimental royal cypher in light blue (device color for dragoons). NCO status would have been indicated by the addition of horizontal or vertical stripes or a combination thereof.

Chip

Sir,

My e-mail is rbhouf@localnet.com also a question for on the Imperial Russian 6th Dragoons where would the star go for a Jr.LT ?. Also do you know of anyone who can make repro German WWI officers shoulder boards and hession sgt collar dics ?.

thanks,

Richard Houf

Lt. - 6.Glukhovskii Dragoon Rgt.

Sir, Do you know what this shoulder board for a Senior Sergent would look like ?.

thanks,

Richard Houf

Shoulder boards of Czar Nicholas II.

Colonel-en-Chief, 4th Guard Rifle Regiment of Tsarkoe Selo.

Adjutant to Czar Alexander III and Alexander II (His father and Grandfather)

These shoulder boards were worn exclusively by Czar Nicholas II.

These boards have no cardboard inserts and were made soft for the purpose of sewing to his gynastorka shits. Most photos of Czar Nicholas in the period of 1916 till his death show him wearing a gynastorka shirt with these boards. The uniform of the 4th Guard Rifle Regiment was worn by the Czar throughout WW1.

Sir,

I would like to know if this is the correct shoulder board for Czar Nicholas II ?. Also are these originals ?.

thanks,

Richard Houf