Bavarian Aviator's Shoulder Boards

[Allan H.]

Now for something a little bit different- a matched pair of Bavarian Leutnant's shoulder boards. No, they aren't Prussian, the blue has just faded from 80 years. If you look at the button holes you can see the blue coming through!

[Allan H.]

The Back side- one moth hole to one of the boards.

[Chip M]

Flieger Oberleutnant

Allan,

Nice to see your boards again. I would be happy to offer them a new home! Would you believe that after all these years of collecting German shoulder boards, I still don't have a M1915 set of Bavarian Flieger officer's boards? Seriously, this is a great set and coupled with the other things you have from this man, a real treasure. Thanks for showing them.

Regards,
Chip

[stogieman]

here's my Bavarian Boards

Near mint field-gray pair with white underlay and blue threads. Subdued props. No white flecks, only blue!

[stogieman]

back side:

.. looks like this. Apparently made for Flieger uniforms as there are no prongs showing, they are beneath the underlay.

[stogieman]

Just for giggles........

... Here's my Saxon pair. Again, minty-fresh field-gray, field-gray underlay, subdued props. Again, prongs are between underlay and boards. Funny part of this is I ordered a pair of prussian ones and these are what showed up!
Needless to say, I was most pleased!

[stogieman]

Reverse:

Looks like this:

[stogieman]

And a couple more....

here's a nice pair of Garde-Pionier suborned to an aviation unit

[stogieman]

.. the last set of devices...

... are gilded "kriegs=metal", showing some typical loss of finish... they were neatly sewn on the boards with f-g thread!

[Dave Mosher]

Here is my set of Prussian M 1910 boards for Flieger Batln 1.

[Dave Mosher]

Backside

[landsknechte]

Now for something a little bit different- a matched pair of Bavarian Leutnant's shoulder boards. No, they aren't Prussian, the blue has just faded from 80 years. If you look at the button holes you can see the blue coming through!

What's the going rate on shoulderboards such as these? I'm a relative neophyte in that area, but I'd eventually like to pick up a set of Bavarian oberleutnant aviation boards.

Thanks,
Chris