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Many thanks to everyone who has posted their eagles, and those beautiful tunics! It is clear that there were a lot of private purchase eagle variants, and I hope we can gather as many as possible in this thread.
I recently picked up a good studio portrait of an army schutze with an M43 'walking out' tunic. The tunic features mouse-grey collar tabs on dark green badge cloth backing, and a well-known type of private purchase eagle. The details are not great when you zoom in on the eagle, but I will post the pics here anyway to keep the thread rolling.
Thanks again to all contributors. Much appreciated!Attached Files
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Very interesting thread.
The 'fat body' eagles in posts #18 and #49 look quite similar (the same?) to an eagle on an M42 (Reitz) tunic on the VG site here:-
http://www.virtualgrenadier.com/sale_item.php?iid=4275
Regards, Paul
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Originally posted by PaulW View PostVery interesting thread.
The 'fat body' eagles in posts #18 and #49 look quite similar (the same?) to an eagle on an M42 (Reitz) tunic on the VG site here:-
http://www.virtualgrenadier.com/sale_item.php?iid=4275
Regards, Paul
Yes, it's a pattern that appears quite a lot. Unfortunately, very few eagles have maker marks, so we will probably never know who made them. However, the number of them that you see in original photos, and their appearance on tunics made before and during the war, suggest that they were produced in considerable numbers.
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Hi Matt,
I was very pleased to find that eagle on a British dealer's website. I thought that maybe it would be a well-known variant, but when I posted it in the forum, people said they had not seen one before. The thread is a kind of white-silver in colour, not pure white, but not actual metallic thread either. It's an interesting one, isn't it? If it isn't a post-war fantasy piece (construction looks good, but you never know), I would guess that it was created by a tailor with some imagination. It is totally UV negative, and the fact that no-one seems to have seen another one makes me think that it is probably original, as most fakes are made in batches.
All the best,
Mark
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