Opinion on RAD high rank collar tabs

[Gunny 249]

Sorry no photo of back at this time.

[tranchant]

rad

hello
with this photos a good feeling for me on this collar tabs!
if you can have the others faces for confirm?
best regards
patrick

[germanpolice]

No, no, no. Repro in my opinion, embroidery is far from good enough and there should not be a black line around the tabs these should be embroidered seperately

[RonR]

Believe this to be a good one...
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[germanpolice]

Ron Excellent

[Gary Symonds]

Reverse

[Gary Symonds]

Obverse, right tab.

[Gary Symonds]

Obverse, left tab.

[Gary Symonds]

Here are my RAD collar tabs. My understanding is that these were in gold for officers less than the head of RAD, whose name escapes me at this time.

As to the tabs posted by Gunny 249, I cannot agree they are fakes. This organization is not the type to draw repros. No eagle, no swastika. Only a shaft of wheat.

The wire is different, but that could be attributed to a different maker. I believe the quality of the embroiderey is up to period standards. These tabs coud be real.

I just don't see these being of such demand as to be faked.

[Gary Symonds]

Through a typo error, I mistakenly got the color of the wire backwards. Silver for officers less than the head of RAD, who wore his and his alone, "Wheat Shaft" collar tabs in Gold.

[tranchant]

collar tabs

hello gary
thank for your opinion, i am not alone! i confirm my firt opinion for me good hand embroider tabs!
best regards
patrick

[Mark Costa]

The GOLD color was designated for ALL General Ranks and the Reichsarbietstfurher Konstantin Hierl. All other officers wore Silver.

Mark Costa

[germanpolice]

RAD generals tabs are faked which these are supposed to be at the beginning of the thread, when you consider that they would go for $1500 for an original pair then fakes in these will exist, and the embroidery for a generals pair of tabs would be top notch not this rubbish proffered here

[Gary Symonds]

The GOLD color was designated for ALL General Ranks and the Reichsarbietstfurher Konstantin Hierl. All other officers wore Silver.

Mark Costa

Mark, thank you for the information. I read somewhere that Hierl (thanks for reminding me of his name) was the only member to have gold insignia. I stand corrected.

Does anybody know how many RAD generals there were? This woud certainly be relevant in determining just how rare gold collar tabs really could be.

$1500 is a lot of money. If collar tabs in gold are that rare, it could be justified

Just what are the numbers?

[Ron C.]

Here are one's I have





Ron

Sorry for "one's" instead of "ones" in the title. My son was standing behind me asking me questions at the time, and it momentarily distracted me.
Ron