Hello! What will be thoughts on authenticity of this obergefreiter arm patch? Has anyone ever encountered such backing cloth? Are tresses look correct for period made piece?
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very nice original Luftwaffe Obergefreiter Winkel
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Greetings Alexander,
It looks like either early war tress on field grey or a golden KM tress on field grey. I have seen backed rank patches and this one looks good to me.
FredComment
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Fred and Naxos thanks for your comments! The wool of this patch is 100% feldblau with silver wash faded away from tresses. Anyway this is original period piece! Thanks
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Agree, looks a good original luft chevronOriginally posted by naxos View Postvery nice original Luftwaffe Obergefreiter Winkel, though backed examples I have seen tend to be KM as Fred said. Often hard to be sure of true colour when looking at pics on a computer.
Jerry
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Yes its a origimal pre war luft chevron in silver wire tress not the later aluminium wire tressComment
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Here is my KM example with a similar backing cloth.
Jerry
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a few army rank chevrons with similar backing,the example to the right has been stripped of rank and most of the backing went withGive a man an opinion and you feed him for a day,
teach a man to use the "search" function on the WAF and you feed him for a lifetime.Comment
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Another similar backing
Regards,
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thanks to all of you guys for such detailed information regarding this chevron! Now I can put it on my tunic's sleeve where it was missed and sleep well with it!
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