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    Sleeve eagle help!!

    Hi All,
    Please, need some opinions on this sleeve eagle I bought as an original back in the late 80’s. Over the years I felt it was a fake until today. I saw one on a dealer’s website, it looked exactly like the one I have which got my hopes up….again. Is there any chance this one is good?

    Thank you,
    Rodney
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      #3
      Hello Rodney, sorry but this is a fake eagle. Best, JLS

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        #4
        IMO it only corresponds to known fakes!

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            #6
            Well known fake since many years. Listed in the pinned threads of this SS part forum.

            Cheers
            //Felix

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              #7
              JLS, Ludwig, John and Felix, Thanks for your help…….
              Man, got my hopes up when I saw one on the dealer’s site for sale. Wish WAF was there in the 80’s, so now it goes back into the junk/repro box…..again and there it will stay!
              Felix, thanks for the heads up on the pinned thread..

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                #8
                First saw this piece of crappola in the mid 70´s...

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                  #9
                  Hi Ludwig,, Yup, got mines in the late 80's. I gone through the Pinned: Links to Threads of interest & importance by Gary Wood and I can't believe how well and aged some of the SS stuffs are. Gary posted several sleeve eagles (post #78-#79, #38 and #36) like mines and even with one being sewn on a piece of sleeve cloth to make it more real. Adrian Stevenson also posted one (#90), all looks the same. Scary that so many were faked, glad I didn't get into the SS stuff.... but the few I got... FAKE!!

                  Thanks again!!!

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                    #10
                    It IS a fake but appeared in a line drawing in the Bender book 'U.O. & H of the Waffen-SS' vol 1

                    Ian

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                      Thank you All for your help!! here’s the other SS.. , all bought in the 80’s as originals. Glad that was all I bought…. as SS goes!

                      Hi Ian, is there a chance you can post the line drawing of the sleeve eagle. Maybe that is why so many were sold as original back then.

                      My SS fakes !!
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by RodneyO View Post
                        Hi Ian, is there a chance you can post the line drawing of the sleeve eagle. Maybe that is why so many were sold as original back then.
                        Here you go ...





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                        Ian
                        Last edited by Ian Hulley; 02-01-2014, 06:42 AM. Reason: Adding images

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                          Hi Ian,
                          Thanks for posting the pictures!! That looks very similar to my (fake) sleeve eagle. Did the SS produce this type of sleeve eagle during the war?

                          Here's a side by side picture..... that drawing is dead-on!!!

                          Aloha,
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                            #14
                            Originally posted by RodneyO View Post
                            Did the SS produce this type of sleeve eagle during the war?
                            No

                            I have one on a fake 'SS Mountain Troops' tunic dating to the 70's I would imagine they date to the late 60's/early 70's

                            Ian

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                              #15
                              Thanks again Ian, you’ve been a big help. Collecting German SS memorabilia, one needed to have seen and handled many (many) original pieces, which sadly I didn’t have a chance back then. I stopped after the sleeve eagle and stayed away from SS ever since.
                              Please post your tunic.. how was the quality of the reproductions/fakes back then, could they have pass for originals?

                              Aloha,

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