Kurland HELP

[Tony K]

Your expertise please. Thank you very much!

[rbno]

IMHO, junk. Sorry.

According to my studies and what I've read, all or essentially all of the originals were made in the Courland pocket. Perhaps half were factory made in a machine woven pattern, but this is not one of them. The other half were made by hand in a myriad of patterns that virtually no two collectors can agree on. Iron clad provenance is almost impossible to obtain. This one is machine embroidered, and trying to be the correct machine woven one, but it falls woefully short.

Alen

[Bruce Simcox]

Hi Tony

......The following links should prove interesting for you.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...hlight=Kurland

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/camp...d_cuffband.htm

[rbno]

Bruce's two links do a very good job of summarizing the situation.

Alen

[Antonio Scapini]

It's a fake Tony, this pattern was already discussed in the past.