LF rank patch - help needed!

[photo-war]

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?

[photo-war]

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[naxos]

very nice original Luftwaffe Obergefreiter Winkel

[Fred Green]

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.

Fred

[photo-war]

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

[Bond]

very nice original Luftwaffe Obergefreiter Winkel

Agree, looks a good original luft chevron, 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

[militaria2000]

Yes its a origimal pre war luft chevron in silver wire tress not the later aluminium wire tress

[Bond]

Here is my KM example with a similar backing cloth.

Jerry

[Lenny W]

a few army rank chevrons with similar backing,the example to the right has been stripped of rank and most of the backing went with

[RUHL13]

Another similar backing
Regards,
Gary

[photo-war]

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!