WW2 British Airborne Parachute Regiment Battle Dress

[Bond]

Others have pointed out particular concerns - buttons, wear and so on. I will only add that WWII tunics - ordinary in and of themselves - with high interest/high value insignia added seems to be a bit of a cottage industry at the moment. I think I've seen more Airbourne and Glider reg't tunics on this one forum in the last 6 months than in 40 years of browsing militaria shows and dealers. I hasten to add that I am not dissing this example, but statistically we should be seeing fewer and fewer of these good condition desireable examples, not more and more. Or am I missing something?

BTW, I'm not a bitter naysayer but was acquainted for years with several dealer with dodgy morals and saw far too many people spend big bucks on stuff that was at best questionable. Feel free to igenore me. My wife does!

All true and good points Peter.

I try not ignore anyone

[merdock]

All true and good points Peter.

I try not ignore anyone

Hi,
There are some big airborne collections that are being wound up lately,here are 2 tunics to the same guy that will one day come up for sale [sorry for the crap photos].
Mark

[merdock]

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[popskipa]

Regarding Richard D's tunic. The BD has critics on this forum, of course it would be nice to examine it in hand but on the strength of the photos it looks original to me, and if I collected airborne would be happy with.

Just my opinion, Keith

[peter monahan]

So, it sounds as if a respected collector [of good kit] is getting out of the hobby and this may be his stuff. That certainly puts a somewhat different complexion on the sudden appearance of a bunch of hgi end airbourne kit. It real estate, its prverbially about 'location, location, location. For tunics, perhaps provenance, porvenance, provenance plus the opinions of knowing collectors like Popskipa is the key.

[Allan B]

A beret is a beret. A BD is a BD. Insignia is insignia. Put them all together as a named grouping you need to have the full provenance and even then it may not be an original grouping.

I was given the full tunic insignia from a member of Das Reich (for free) and he swore that it was off his WW2 tunic. However, the cuff title and the SS tab were fake. I was still grateful. All I am saying is buyer be ware.

Unless you get a period photo with the exact insignia on it, you can never be certain.

[brooksbz]

Now I would only buy a named and attributed BD.

[zipper]

depends on how one attributes the definition " named "

[grndevil44]

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