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Hi Schie?platzmeister, Many thanks for your input. You are absolutely correct concerning the maker mark. I enclose some higher resolution samples of the pics posted earlier. Do they help at all? Regards, Sandro

Many thanks, Wild Card, look forward to the comparison pics when you have received your star. Regards, Sandro

Can I invite your opinions, please, on this black eagle order breast star offered by Kai Winkler? Many thanks in advance. Regards, Sandro

And comparison pics from the H?sken and Zienert books. Regards, Sandro

Further pics. Hope you enjoy them. Regards, Sandro

I thought I?d share with you an interesting item I recently acquired. It came from the household of Prinz Heinrich, and resembles an imperial admiral?s interim baton in every respect (including the case), safe for the gold embossements. The pics showing the Prinz Heinrich interim baton come from the H?sken book. I have received some recent info on the embossments that I intend to investigate further, which may help clarify what we?re looking at. Regards, Sandro

Another thing that has been puzzeling me: white thread to hold the O2 mask strap. I have checked some of the pics in this post, but none of them exhibit this trait.

Hi Bill, Can you post close ups of the liner, please? I may be misinterpreting the pics, but it looks to me like the jacket is lined with a very light and lightweigth material, perhaps parachute silk or something similar. Do you or the owner have any info concerning labels, stamps, zipper makermmarks, maker marks on press studs etc? And does either of you have any pics showing areas that may have been unexposed to the elements, like the inside of a pocket? Thanks and regards, Sandro

Zoom 3, close up of the collar.

Zoom 2.

Zoom 1

Would this be the color pic you gentlemen had in mind? It hails from the Gmeline book on hte Luftwaffe. Regards, Sandro

Pics # 8 and 9, showing details of the jacket?s construction. All of the pics I have posted appear to show (1) white backed eagles; (2) solid waistbands and (3) the presence of a mappocket on the left upper breast. An exception to (2) appears to be the jacket of Werner M?lders shown in Francois second post: but also in that pic, the zipper (if it runs to the bottom of the jacket) seems to lack the cotton reinforcements present on the jacket shown in Bill?s pics. I?ll be interested in hearing your thoughts. Regards, Sandro

Pics # 6 and 7: main pic and close up. Again, notice the "solid" waistband.

Pic # 5 - The characterstics of the jackets seem consistent throughout all of these pics.

Pic # 4 - Close up of the man on the left

Pic # 3

Pic # 2

Francois alerted me to this excellent thread. Studying the pics of the GW Bill Bourque posted, I noted some differences in construction between that jacket, and the ones shown in photographs my mentor in this field kindly shared with me. Firstly, all of these pics seem to confirm Jos?assesment that the eagle on original GW?s comes with a hite backing. Secondly, it strikes me that whilst the jacket shown in hte pics posted by Bill has the usual cotton reinforced front zipper and woolen waistband also found on the blue summer LW jacket, the white jackets in the pics I will show seem to have a solid woolen waistband, and therefore seem to be of the pullover type. Hope this is of some use, Regards, Sandro

I thought you?d promised to take me waltzing ..... You did it again, my friend, two beautiful birds for X-mas, Sandro

You could consider writing to the Traditionsgemeinschafft for Fschpzkorps HG, to see whether they can help identifying the item, and can help explain the enigmatic "70" (which possibly refers to the date of a reunion). According to a recent site, their address is: "Hermann G?ring": "Traditionsverband Fallschirmpanzerkorps" Reinhold Gerlach, Zum Seifengraben 18, 35582 Wetzlar, Tel.: 0641 - 21868. Cheers, Sandro

I?m inclined to think this is a postwar item, which may refer to wartime or even postwar service. The tank depicted looks much more like a US medium tank of the M48/M 60 series than like the Pzkfw III depicted on WWII Panzer Assault Badge. See comparison pics attached. Regards, Sandro

Gents, This is what Weitze makes of it: 1660 Zivilnadel einer LW-Sturmgesch?tzeinheit ovales Ansteckabzeichen, an langer Nadel. Zustand 2+, selten. ? 60,00 Regards, Sandro