A strange arm shield

[cosimo]

Please help me does someone know thisform of shield? it is very small, and it seems of German production. What is it? Of what epoch is it?
many thanks
cosimo

[cosimo]

Many thanks for your help cosimo

[atcase]

Hi cosimo,
this could be a russian voluntere (sp0 shield better try posting in the uniforms and insignia section.

Ashley

[cosimo]

Hi Ashley. many thanks for you opinion, ( I would be very happy if this shield it is a be a russian volunteres insignia ) I post this shield in uniforms and insignia section too. But I don't have any precise idea on this insignia, and of what epoch it is. I believe it is a German production, but I am not even sure of this. So I hope someone can help mein this section of the forum . Is this shield a insignia in use in one of the German polices in post WW II Germany?

Many thanks
cosimo

[DougO]

There is no German state shield that looks like this shield --but I feel this coud have been a arm sleeve shield of a local city police . I feel it is modern and post-war . Regards , Bernd

[cosimo]

Hi people Richard Woodshas resolved the mystery

In 1996 or 1967 I drew this very insignia, and forty five others, for “The Formation Sign”; the journal of the Military Heraldry Society. The drawings were based on photocopies of the pages from a manufacturers sample book owned by a fellow society member. Most, though infuriatingly not all of the signs were clearly labelled; this particular one as “209. Coy Pioneer Corps”. An illustrated article about the signs in the book appeared in “The Formation Sign” No 186 (April -June 1997). <O</O
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209 Company AMPC, the colours are those of the Pioneer Corps not some obscure foreign volunteer unit of the Wehrmacht.

but sincerely, except for the dimensions, all made me think about a German insignia. Even if I was not quite certain of the epoch and I had thought about a production for a local police or a French unity or English or American in Germany.

hi people many thanks for all your help

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