Luftwaffe LW eagle

[MichaW]

Hello,

what do you think about this eagle? Maybe a france production?

greetings

Michael

[Paul R]

Hi Micha,

Could you please post some bigger scans without the editing?

Thanks

Paul

[MichaW]

... better pic ...

Hi Micha,

Could you please post some bigger scans without the editing?

Thanks

Paul

[MichaW]

... nobody an opinion?

[Paul R]

... nobody an opinion?

I am not an authority on these insignia, but I will get some members who do know about them to take a look!

[Scott]

Paul, I'm not an authority on these by any stretch, but one thing I look for is the stitching quality on the swastika. On the original eagles I've seen, the swastika is symetrical with nice, sharp 90-degree angles and superb attention to detail on the stitching. Your eagle looks fairly good until I get to the swaz, which seems less-well executed than the rest of the eagle. I may be way off base in my opinion/observation.

Scott

[Paul R]

Paul, I'm not an authority on these by any stretch, but one thing I look for is the stitching quality on the swastika. On the original eagles I've seen, the swastika is symetrical with nice, sharp 90-degree angles and superb attention to detail on the stitching. Your eagle looks fairly good until I get to the swaz, which seems less-well executed than the rest of the eagle. I may be way off base in my opinion/observation.

Scott

Thanks for the input! It is not my bird.

[Bob Lyons]

I agree wih Scott, eagle looks good but the swaz is not correct, it looks to me like it was once

de-nazified, and someone has had a swastika re-affixed, there seems to be a slightly different backing

to the part where the swastika is too, so my guess is a good bird with a postwar replaced swastika.

Bob

[MichaW]

Thank you very much, the owner tell me the swastica was made 1944 in Paris from a french dressmaker???

[Bob Lyons]

Hmmm, I would still be inclined to think the swastika was added postwar.....

Bob

[Jos Le Conté]

Hmmm, I would still be inclined to think the swastika was added postwar.....

Bob

There's a good chance...

Eagle itself looks OK, swas looks odd.., would like to see a sharp close-up of that area..

Jos.