SS Boards

[STUG III]

Need some opinions on these boards. I had them offered in a trade, but wanted to get some photo's first before accepting them. Honest wear, and they are white piped but dirty, but not 'text book' type I know. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks. Dave.

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[drbill]

I like them, look ok to me

[besslein]

real.

[Kurt Meyer]

[STUG III]

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Hey thanks fellow WAF members. Now I can trade! Many thanks. Dave.

[papa schulz]

hello
nice original set
i have the same in my collection

[Richard P]

Nice original SS boards, quality manufacture too.

Richard

[M Bando]

re: Infantry EM boards

The only potential red flag I see is the field grey under-material has jagged, un-trimmed edges near the piping. While I have never acquired any W-SS boards from vets with that imperfection, I have seen it commonly on repro boards coming out of France. Whoever is making them, uses field grey wool cut from German overcoats and assembles them with the proper cord style piping, but for some reason, they don't manicure the edges of the field grey material and the jagged results overlap the piping.
If you get them, you can easily trim them yourself, with a small, sharp pair of scissors. But seeing that sets off alarms with me, because I've seen many like that for sale in France.
Another detail is the tongues. While I have seen a few known original EM boards with the wide, tapering tongues like that, most tongues I've seen on vet-acquired SS boards have been narrower and the same width, from end to end.
At the end of the day, these boards could be original but I have just enough issues with them that I would not try to acquire them for my collection.

[M Bando]

Looking at the images again...

I notice the same untrimmed edges on the tongues and the wide openings
of the button holes on the tongues are also not a good sign, although they could have been stretched open from prolonged attachment to a tunic. Usually those button holes are as narrow as a mere slit on known originals.
I've never gotten SS EM boards from a vet source with those untrimmed edges.

[besslein]

I notice the same untrimmed edges on the tongues and the wide openings
of the button holes on the tongues are also not a good sign, although they could have been stretched open from prolonged attachment to a tunic. Usually those button holes are as narrow as a mere slit on known originals.
I've never gotten SS EM boards from a vet source with those untrimmed edges.

are you kidding? what mean vet source? i vote you mean US veteran finds,and this is how a real think have to look?
i think im poor guy from Europe where its all start and was made, and to bad my expirenc is bulid on what i have found and seen here in Europe,as my items are not from us army veterans finds.ehhh...