DDR East German Shoulder Boards

[Paul R]

The last one...

[Kev in Deva]

Great collection Paul

all neatly laid out on a white U.S. military towel!

Kevin in Deva. :beer:

[Gordon Craig]

It came in this box, but i don?t know, if it really belonged to the Insingia inside.

Gerd,

This is the correct box for General officers boards and collar tabs. They were presented this way, and with the promotion document, at the ceremony where the General was officially promoted. They are rare. I bid on a set years ago but was not the successful bidder.

Regards,

Gordon

[ehrentitle]

Unfortunately I have a particular weakness for NVA shoulder boards and I have hundreds, probably well over a 1,000 pairs with extras I've accumulated. Altough I don't really collect VOPO, rail and other non-miliary boards, I've accumulated a substantial collection of these as well.

Yet I still have several holes to fill, especially in Volksmarine and some of the Fahnrich school boards for some branches. Perhaps we should set up a collectors exchange for like minded East German shoulder board collectors who have spare sets just gathering dust.

[Paul R]

Great collection Paul

all neatly laid out on a white U.S. military towel!

Kevin in Deva.

LOL! I put them out on the towel because they would look funny on the wooden table. :cheeky:

[Paul R]

Unfortunately I have a particular weakness for NVA shoulder boards and I have hundreds, probably well over a 1,000 pairs with extras I've accumulated. Altough I don't really collect VOPO, rail and other non-miliary boards, I've accumulated a substantial collection of these as well.

Yet I still have several holes to fill, especially in Volksmarine and some of the Fahnrich school boards for some branches. Perhaps we should set up a collectors exchange for like minded East German shoulder board collectors who have spare sets just gathering dust.

An exchange would be a great idea. I have boxes of rare stuff(like the BG Marine straps).