SS bleu cuff no 10

[Marc verstraete]

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I am in the process of acquiring this cuff but if I feel mostly comfortable with the quality and origin, I have a small doubt. The cuff is wider than the other ones I have of the same colour (nr.4) and the texture feel different also. Can someone see something wrong with it with the posted pictures??

Marc

[Marc verstraete]

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[darryl-P]

Marc,

From my knowledge the border colour is wrong for a number 10. They should be dark red, not blue. However, I really don't think those are numbers...they look more like letters to me.

Perhaps someone more versed in SS cloth could expand and explain.

PS - I found an image depicting the number 12 on a cuff-title. This one was on my Standarte 81 tunic I owned a while ago. You can see how the number "1" should be shaped.

[Gary Wood]

marc,
Sorry,the blue edged cuff title you have posted is a fake, they have not even removed the paper from the back of the embroidery on your example as well, this type is a later trait of fake embroidery, I have a similar fake band somewhere I will see if I have it scanned but it is the same type of band as this example you posted.
cheers,
Gary

[Gary Wood]

Darryl ,
your example looks like it is hand embroidered rather than machine embroidered, just realised i do not have a 12 but i have a machine embroidered 11 :-),
you can find originals with the bottom bar like on yours but on the whole they are without the bottom bar
cheers,
Gary

[Gary Wood]

here are a few more examples the one on the right is machine done with a bottom bar

cheers,
Gary

[Gary Wood]

and another with a very small bar at the base of the one

cheers,

Gary

[Robert H]

thanks for this numbered cufftitle thread. I just can agree the "10" title from Mark isn´t original. I like this numbered stuff very much, perhaps with the colored borders