Skull Embelished Holster

[RobertE]

Thanks all for the inputs. Sounds like this got stuck through the holster at a later date.

Equipment was modified with insignia, Joe. I know of no collector hear-say for or against the possibility of soldiers sticking service insignia on to holsters, and was interested in any photographic evidence showing such use.

Doesn't look like we have a thread or other respository of evidence supporing use of the insignia at this time, so I guess the answer is no.

Good discussion; thanks again for inputs.

s/f Robert

[Ian Hulley]

Doesn't look like we have a thread or other respository of evidence supporing use of the insignia at this time, so I guess the answer is no.

US veterans are known to attach IIIrd Reich insignia to a number of things ... the Waffen-SS certainly wouldn't have added a skull to a holster.

Ian

[Douglas Jr.]

It was a common practice among GIs for captured gear.
I had seen it before. However, never saw one - on forums, books or personally - that was attributed to a German soldier. It goes to the same league as nickled plated guns advertised as "German Officer" model.

Douglas.

[MikeP]

This topic comes up every now and then on various forums.
Consensus is that it was done by vets-or us kids in the 50s who performed unspeakeable mutilations on this stuff.

I have seen US gear in use where a GI stuck an EGA or jump wings, etc to holsters and other pieces.
Germans were unlikelyto be that imaginative or free willed.

I have owned and seen holsters with Iron Crosses, cap eagles, Italian strs-you name it.

[RobertE]

I had never seen period pictures of such insignia in use by the Germans in WWII. It looks like no one else has either. Thanks for all the observations, fellas.

s/f Robert