Here's a repro that it is often offered as real. Quite accurate but note the dark backing.
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An original with the correct lighter backing.Something of interest here is that this type of shield is sometimes found attached to non German feldgrau tunic material. Some collectors believe it therefore must have been attached post war but the easy answer is merely that the Turkistan legion were often kitted out with captured Dutch stock!Attached Files
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Originally posted by Dan TAn original with the correct lighter backing.Something of interest here is that this type of shield is sometimes found attached to non German feldgrau tunic material. Some collectors believe it therefore must have been attached post war but the easy answer is merely that the Turkistan legion were often kitted out with captured Dutch stock!
I guess it's an aside but on the topic of shields I'm planning a recon mission to the Sheffield military shop which had all those rolls of shields a few years ago...just got to ditch Jack and the girls for the afternoon
Cheers,Ian Hulley.
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Yes Ian I know you got stung with these early on but many are still getting ripped off by them now! I entered a well known English dealer shop in Islington to be offered one of these repros."A veteran from the eight army gave me this to me when he was in Italy". "Really?!" I politely replied.
The problem is that at first glance they look correct. Once you handle them you find they are stiff and constructed from Nylon as Tony describes. Real ones should flop over your finger and be silky smooth. Typical Bevo construction. Original cuffbands are the same feel. Ian you have been invaluable in my little mission to discover when these started to appear on the collectors' market. The late 70s is the earliest appearance I have noted from a collector.I have gathered views of many. Bob Hritz remembers them in the mid 80s in the states so it is fair to say that they appeared in England earlier. Which brings me to their country of origin.England? I don't think so. They are simply too well made. I 'm still going stick with my intial view that France is where they were made. Especially when some of the WW2 jackard looms survived post war.
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