Looking for good insignia reference websites

[landsknechte]

Does anyone who specializes in Polizei and similar such organizations have any good links that they might be able to share that would help a casual "outsider" have some sort of clue what they might have stumbled across, when they find shoulderboards and the like that are outside of the standard Heer / Kriegsmarine / Luftwaffe?

Thanks,

--Chris

[Guest Rick Research]

Or you could show us and we could tell you.

[landsknechte]

Or you could show us and we could tell you.

Haven't actually got anything in hand, and I like to have some clue what I'm purchasing in advance of the purchase. Whatever that purchase might be.

[Guest Rick Research]

Awww... where's the fun in THAT?! Besides, you haven't done too bad on impulse buys (obviously your shops are better pickins than ours!)

[landsknechte]

Come to think of it, there is one that has had me scratching my head. I'll try my best to describe it in a halfway coherent fashion:

Imagine the U shaped pattern of the Russian braid on your typical Leutnant shoulderboard. Instead of the Russian braid, there is a braid that looks more like the way that rope is twisted. Each strand is maybe 3mm wide, and made of some sort of silky looking white material. I couldn't see any evidence of pips or devices having been present. The backing is a pale gray, more sidewalk gray than feldgrau. Remnants of a RZM tag are present, with the printing on the tag in gray instead of the more typical black.

I've had trouble finding anything even vaguely similar to this to reference it to.

Something DRK perhaps?

--Chris

Edited January 25, 2006 by landsknechte

[landsknechte]

....and, I just found this pic. One of the local surplus shops has an identical example:

Edited January 25, 2006 by landsknechte

[landsknechte]

Come to think of it, there is one that has had me scratching my head. I'll try my best to describe it in a halfway coherent fashion:

Imagine the U shaped pattern of the Russian braid on your typical Leutnant shoulderboard. Instead of the Russian braid, there is a braid that looks more like the way that rope is twisted. Each strand is maybe 3mm wide, and made of some sort of silky looking white material. I couldn't see any evidence of pips or devices having been present. The backing is a pale gray, more sidewalk gray than feldgrau. Remnants of a RZM tag are present, with the printing on the tag in gray instead of the more typical black.

I've had trouble finding anything even vaguely similar to this to reference it to.

Something DRK perhaps?

--Chris

AHA! I knew being stuck home after having wisdom teeth pulled would have some small benefit. Answered my own question.

Apparently a SA-Sturmf?hrer from Gruppe Niederrhein.

[Laurence Strong]

Here's a couple

http://www.wwiidaybyday.com/

http://www.answers.com/topic/nazi-party-paramilitary-ranks

[landsknechte]

Here's a couple

http://www.wwiidaybyday.com/

http://www.answers.com/topic/nazi-party-paramilitary-ranks

Thanks!