Hello everybody,
i can not comment on the uniforms of Simon because i haven t seen them with my own eyes, their might be all originals with real insignias, but i know from my own collecting that a lot of uniforms surfacing in Germany were denazified after the war, in most allied pow camps there were orders that all insignias have to be removed even KM buttons.
i have found many uniforms without any insignias mostly EM, most uniforms that appear with original insignias are those of Officers our senior NCOs who always had a couple of them hanging at home.
this of course does not mean that all EM WH uniforms are found without insignias, but you can say a majority, dealers our collectors have applied the missing pieces later.
remember that SS insignias were not something you went into a POW camp with, if you had time to remove them you would have it done before being taken as POW.
as a WH tunic collector over the last 20 years, i had only got a few EM tunics ( im talking about combat tunics) with absolutely 100% untoched insignias, most insignias have been added later.
for me it not a big deal if i know the tunic has been altered after WWII, but it has to be with 100% original insignias. I have lost hope to find untoched EM tunics.
for General uniforms , it s so rare to find originals in Germany, most General insignias have been added to normal officer tunics.
ask every German tunic collector how rare it is to get a general tunic with original applied insignias to it, and i mean a uniform that comes out of a veterans family and not a dealer.
i prefer to collect the normal WH tunics then the higher priced stuff, this is just because there is to much money involved and to much to loose if you dont know what you are doing.
this is my own opinion, of course i might be all wrong with what i m saying.
best regards to all.
Alex
i can not comment on the uniforms of Simon because i haven t seen them with my own eyes, their might be all originals with real insignias, but i know from my own collecting that a lot of uniforms surfacing in Germany were denazified after the war, in most allied pow camps there were orders that all insignias have to be removed even KM buttons.
i have found many uniforms without any insignias mostly EM, most uniforms that appear with original insignias are those of Officers our senior NCOs who always had a couple of them hanging at home.
this of course does not mean that all EM WH uniforms are found without insignias, but you can say a majority, dealers our collectors have applied the missing pieces later.
remember that SS insignias were not something you went into a POW camp with, if you had time to remove them you would have it done before being taken as POW.
as a WH tunic collector over the last 20 years, i had only got a few EM tunics ( im talking about combat tunics) with absolutely 100% untoched insignias, most insignias have been added later.
for me it not a big deal if i know the tunic has been altered after WWII, but it has to be with 100% original insignias. I have lost hope to find untoched EM tunics.
for General uniforms , it s so rare to find originals in Germany, most General insignias have been added to normal officer tunics.
ask every German tunic collector how rare it is to get a general tunic with original applied insignias to it, and i mean a uniform that comes out of a veterans family and not a dealer.
i prefer to collect the normal WH tunics then the higher priced stuff, this is just because there is to much money involved and to much to loose if you dont know what you are doing.
this is my own opinion, of course i might be all wrong with what i m saying.
best regards to all.
Alex
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