Bizarre ribbon bar attachment

[landsknechte]

...it's not authentic, but what the heck is it???

[Stogieman]

Looks like some type of artillery device.

[landsknechte]

For a moment, I thought I had found the rare "flaming cocktail shaker" shoulderboard cypher of the Fallschirm-bartender-regt.

[Bob Hunter]

Let's move this to a higher intellectual level...how about an aviation ordnance technician??

[landsknechte]

There's something vaguely British about the way that device looks, but that's a completely uneducated guess

based purely on aesthetics.

Edited October 23, 2005 by landsknechte

[Stogieman]

My guess would have been Brit or French

[Christophe]

I have no idea of what it is.... but, to me, does not look French.

Ch.

[David S]

My initial thoughts were Kreigsmarine Coastal Artillery. The badge is below.

The wings are different.

[Stogieman]

Huh, never would have taken that for being German...... go figure!

[landsknechte]

Huh... You learn something every day. Cool.

--Chris

[Paul R]

Huh... You learn something every day. Cool.

--Chris

I saw a better look of that ribbon bar... The insignia is placed on a KVM ribbon. The prongs on are wrapped around the bar. They do not penetrate the fabric or the bar and it could be removed without evidence... unless it was on the bar so long that there are fading/staining patterns present around where the insignia is placed.

Warm regards

Paul

Edited October 24, 2005 by Paul Reck

[Stogieman]

OK, well that's interesting on several fronts...

25mm ribbon that looks glued to a brass backing plate

no backing material

how odd.

probably real, but well into the oddity column to me!