This eagle sure looks cheesy and I would ID it as a fake except it came in a large US patch collection and it doesn't glow on the back (UV). Also the cloth does look old. Any chance this might be some weird foreign volunteer item -- It kind of looks like a big pigeon to me.
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Very ugly heer breast eagle
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I agree, this is a Patch King.
They made patches during and after WW2 for WW1 veterans and young collectors.
Many of thier "German" and "US WW1, style patches can be found in WWII period scrap books. many were made before 1945, so they are old and period, just not original.
Attached is one of their old ads from a magazine.Attached Files
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Yup, they started early in the repro market. After the war, they bought up most of the left-over stock of original US patches and begun selling them every place they could. They came in Cereal boxes during the 1950's, and I even remember in the 1970's, they were in bubble gum machines in clear plastic eggs. I bought many WWII Navy ratings for .25 cents back then from these machines when I was a kid. If something was in demand, such as the German patches, they just had them made up.
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