Insignia lot from vets house

[scottishsoldier]

Nice haul of insignia from a 7th Armoured Desert Rat vets house. Seemingly swopped for cigarettes with German prisoners when he was in Germany in 1945 after the fall of Hamburg which he was involved in. An absolute mass of stuff from the family inc. 2 RTR uniforms, 4 berets etc. etc. but this uniform removed insignia is cracking. There's also a nice 1941dtd. Luft belt. [/SIZE]

[Fred Green]

Hello,

Great Vet Haul!! I love that there is great variance in it. The SS Eagles are pretty cool too.

Fred

[RobertE]

Fantastic group, and classic POW captures. Small insignia right from the POW cages - congratulations on some great insignia.

I hope the newspaper clipping illuminates as to the circumstances of capture.

regards, Robert

[Leroy]

Very interesting and nice to see that style LW breast eagle, which some regarded as questionable, if not outright fake, in the past.

[Tom Pearcy]

Congrats on a great score. What's in the case?

[Schulterklappen]

Vet's Lot

Very nice and glad that it went to someone that had an interest in it! So many times it ended up in "dustbin" as they say there!

[NickG]

Wow 3 different styles of SS eagles including a hammerhead. When such groups surface such eagles usually come from the same source together and are identical...not here! Good haul with variety.
The phone operator trade patch (LW) btw has a metal swastika added, which belongs to a collar tab for DRB (German rail ) ...the other half of that metal collar tab insignia , a winged rail wheel is also included in the group... .