Heer SS type cuffband

[Gordon Williamson]

Here's a question for the cloth insignia buffs. Which of these is an SS type cuffband.

[bob wirtz]

Gordon,

Not sure what your looking for. The "SS-Feldgendarmerie" cuffband is for the SS and the brown one is German Army. The SS cuffband is a bevo-like style, one of those rare types that had little company.

Bob

[Gordon Williamson]

Bob

It was a trick question. I deliberately used the term SS "type". Of course the SS-Feldgendarmerie was the second type used by the Waffen-SS, but before the introduction of this pattern, they used the regular brown Feldgendarmerie band, but what I was getting at was the weave style of the brown one. It is an extremely rare variant, and if you look closely you'll see it is in fact of the identical weave style as the Waffen-SS cufftitles for Norge, Danmark and Hitlerjugend cufftitles, clearly made by the same firm.

So the answer to my question was realy both of them are SS "type". Both were used by the Waffen-SS and the brown one is in a weave style so far only seen for three SS bands plus this Fg variant. :D

[bob wirtz]

I just didn't understand the question... I knew that somebody wouldn't put something out there that was obvious, so I was looking for trick. Missed it... duh!

Bob

[Gordon Williamson]

Heres a comparison shot showing the weave on the Fg cuffband with the weave on a Waffen-SS Danmark cuffband.