Thoughts on this ebay item

[DJT]

Well I guess I was wrong about the seller then. Liam, I checked a good early post war book called 'The Red Beret: The story of the Parachute Regiment at war 1940-45' by H. Saunders and there is no mention of your man in the index. Certainly odd if he was the mover & shaker that the seller claimed. I suppose this is the perfect illustration of that old Collector slogan 'Buy the item, not the story'. I must say I shuddered at some of the amounts people were going to bid on that beret. Having said that though, I see a 44 dated beret currently on eBay is not far off such amounts. The era of silly prices in British WW2 Airborne militaria is definitely upon us.

[Old Smelly]

Well I guess I was wrong about the seller then. Liam, I checked a good early post war book called 'The Red Beret: The story of the Parachute Regiment at war 1940-45' by H. Saunders and there is no mention of your man in the index. Certainly odd if he was the mover & shaker that the seller claimed. I suppose this is the perfect illustration of that old Collector slogan 'Buy the item, not the story'. I must say I shuddered at some of the amounts people were going to bid on that beret. Having said that though, I see a 44 dated beret currently on eBay is not far off such amounts. The era of silly prices in British WW2 Airborne militaria is definitely upon us.

I checked a Jan 1946 Army list and he definately was an officer from the Royal Fusiliers who got the OBE but not sure what for. Apart from that I couldn't find any other mention of him, this is odd but not unheard of, I had a lot of problems researching another officer but eventually found him after a lot of digging. All that said, without anything in writing to confirm the story it is just a nice beret.
Lee

[Kiwi Ric]

Hey guys, I was thinking of picking this up,

whats you guys view on the kangol 2 line motto, I see in most berets they Kangol wear lmt is in one line?

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=130318085561

[jelle]

It is a postwar Kangol beret,indeed the makers mark is written on 2 lines!The 1941 stamp is fake!

[GregB]

Hey guys, I was thinking of picking this up,

whats you guys view on the kangol 2 line motto, I see in most berets they Kangol wear lmt is in one line?

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=130318085561

faked WWII date, post war beret

[Kiwi Ric]

Thanks, man you guys are life savers

[nige247]

further to the last,
ebay item was 170321597539,
Officer details were , Maj Field 992149,
perhaps a member can research, better than me, to prove the officer did in fact receive 3 awards, ( or did not )
many thanks.

Managed to get to the library today and found the following info(not a lot)
Born 29/03/1917

Regiment Royal Fusiliers(City of London)
2Lt 26/08/37
Lt 26/08/40
War substantive Captain 14/03/43
Substantive Captain 26/08/45
Acting Maj 14/12/42 - 13/03/43
Temp Major 14/03/43 - 14/11/44
War Sub Major 15/11/44
Acting Lt Col 15/08/44 - 14/11/44
Temp Lt Col 15/11/44

As noted he was awarded the OBE 11/10/45 and he was mentioned in Dispatches on the 22/3/45, these are the LG dates.

I could not find any Info in any of the Para or R,Fusiliers reference books .

One thing I did note was that he was a 2nd Grade staff officer as a Captain working for Major General MS Chilton who was the Director Air.
However the date for this is 30/06/1946

Thats it for now
Nige

[ARTE ET MARTE]

Hi Nige,
thanks for taking the time to find this info,
Liam.

[yellow]

This VC group turned up in a house clearance: 280372906481

I believe the story because theres a nice plastic victory medal ribbon on the bar

[John Wright]

No attempt to deceive here,the VC has COPY on the reverse under the date of award the other are clearly renamed.

John

[yellow]

Take a closer look John. All the medals are fakes, not renamed.

A replacement set for who's benefit exactly? Certainly not the vets or the families, not with those ribbons and that mounting which is less than 5 years of age.

The point I am of course making is the the crazy high price these are fetching. One could purchase a good genuine set of WW1 medals for the same money, why bid on such dross?

[lnijherald]

Gentlemen beware! Nigel Flitter aka militarytrader is now using a different ebay username:

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/the-biffboys/

Luc

[redline09]

Gentlemen beware! Nigel Flitter aka militarytrader is now using a different ebay username:

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/the-biffboys/

Luc

what does mr.Flitter get upto then? (sell fakes?)

[Old Smelly]

It's that fibre rim again, last seen at Beltring!
http://www.brittonatwar.co.uk/shop/viewphoto.php?x=0
Lee

[Gary Jucha]

is

Is that the one that had £1200 on it at Beltring ? ... it was roughly left of centre, .. half way down on a right hand stall as you looked at the stalls from the wooden gate/entrance ..

It's that fibre rim again, last seen at Beltring!
http://www.brittonatwar.co.uk/shop/viewphoto.php?x=0
Lee