Lots of questions with pics

[Glenn McInnes]

The pea pattern camo jacket has been messed with... Collar tabs "joke"

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Glenn

[Gary Wood]

I would say they do not look wrong but I would prefer larger pics.

//Felix

You never said that you were implying they were fake...they are not
If you need larger pictures ask for them

[Gary Wood]

I really do not understand where all this negativity is coming from.......has anything been posted yet that is fake?

[Monarch 10EE]

I was worried that when I took the tabs off, the fabric under it might be brighter than around it. But it looks OK.
No more arm band either.

[billbert]

Since it wasn't exposed to much light for Halloween..you are good to go...Billbert

[phild]

I think people are loosing their minds.

It seems it is (as most would have suspected) mint underneath where the tabs were....so no harm no foul. Even if there was a trace, what is the big deal? Its a WWII SS combat jacket not a Rembrandt painting.......get a brain.

I guess we all have to say the say the jacket was "messed with" because it at one time had a party armband slipped on the sleeve or maybe because the sleeves were rolled up post war!

My mother sewed a Merrill's Marauder's patch on an old WWII fatigue shirt for me that I used to wear playing in the early 60s. I have often wondered if that jacket is not in some collection or museum now with a story a mile long framed beside it!

[squidney86]

I think people are loosing their minds.

Could not agree more

[kammo man]

I liked the jacket the way it was.

[JohnnyA]

Negativity???

I really do not understand where all this negativity is coming from.......has anything been posted yet that is fake?

Surely you jest, this forum thrives on negativity.

[Gary Wood]

Surely you jest, this forum thrives on negativity.

So it would seem!

[SJP]

I liked the jacket the way it was.

Right....now that jalcket is "messed with"
Cheers Steve

[eldenwaff]

Well, OP wanted opinions and he got them.
If everyone reacted the same it would be downright boring.
I have no doubt if I showed up on a baseball forum with a batch of Babe Ruth/Micky Mantle rookie cards that I claimed were sitting in the attic for 50 years and remembered seeing them as a kid, I'd run into a fair share of skeptics.
No different here. Negativism which I have been part of is dying down, so we'll see what happens.

OP if you are reading this, what is the stickpin in the cardboard, couldn't quite make it out ?

[Texasuberalles]

[QUOTE=And I have a question you guys can probably answer. What was the procedure for mailing home packages? I can’t see the War Department using resources to mail home souvenirs during a time of war. Now after the war it may have been doable. And I’m sure if it was small enough, like a folded flag, they would just keep it with them as they marched.[/QUOTE]



A veteran I knew (sadly now dead) who later became a major collector of Nazi pistols told me had mailed home over 100 Lugers, P-38s, PPks etc. that were the basis of his collection. If you could have seen his collection in the 70’s it made sense that his story was legit.

He said it was not ‘legal’ to mail home pistols and you had to declare what was inside a package which would stop the mailing of the weapon or alert some postal clerk would would then abscond with the guns.

His clever idea was to pack several guns in a box with a couple pieces of broken china. He would then declare that there was only china inside and would have already marked the box as “FRAGILE” all over.

He said that he never lost a pistol in transit as anyone who picked up the box heard the ‘tinkle’ of the broken china and then could have cared less about someone’s ‘broken dishes’ being shipped to Texas……….

[Texasuberalles]

There’s a family story that he acquired a minty Mauser 98k rifle. Then after about three days of lugging it around he said, “I’m not carrying this around for the rest of the war”, and leaned it against a tree and walked away.

A now deceased vet I knew said that there were so many 98ks laying around that after they removed and threw away the bolt they would lay them crossways across a muddy road to make them more driveable.

[Monarch 10EE]

That sounds like a pretty good analogy Eldenwaff.
It's the one on the left.