SS Sleave Eagle For Review

[Tony Bologna]

Post war to me as well.

A cloud of suspicion has been cast over all stories of Belgian and French made items. Perhaps some are wrongly accused of being fake, but the threading on the back of this piece matches post ‘45 styles, maybe ‘80’s or something

[Moore-Grant]

Post war to me as well.

A cloud of suspicion has been cast over all stories of Belgian and French made items. Perhaps some are wrongly accused of being fake, but the threading on the back of this piece matches post ‘45 styles, maybe ‘80’s or something

Hi Tony,

Thanks for that, you are a gent. Very helpful & precise on what is wrong with this. Cloth is not my area, as you know, & medals are an issue with me somewhat too.

Much better on Daggers & Swords. I much prefer edged weapons anyway.

I was only going on the information I was given by a collector of SS cloth insignia, that is why I posted it here.

Many cheers mate.

[Persoons_Karst]

David mate I parlez enough Francais to know it's une sac de merde

Honhonhon

[Persoons_Karst]

To me its also not good, as Tony said about the back.

And these days its indeed: "is it ugly or off, then its Belgian made". Not everything that looks ****ty is made in my country during the war.

[Winkelman]

Here it is between its friends - all currently available reproductions bought cheap as reference material . Cloth doesn't feel right to the touch either ..

[coogan]

Here it is between its friends - all currently available reproductions bought cheap as reference material . Cloth doesn't feel right to the touch either ..

Thanks for that. That photo is going in my cloth fake archive.

[Moore-Grant]

Indeed, very helpful.

Thank you Winkelman

[90th Light]

Yes I have noticed that too . . .
Its beginning to be the normal war cry
and TBH I too an getting a bit fed up with it
No disrespect to you as your a good judge and have a descent reputation of this stuff
but a few the new comers are normally the ones who yell "Dutch / Belgian"
Regards David

Sadly I can only state the opposite,

I was offered some Belgium/ Flemish made items in the years before I got on to WAF. I thought it was a load of post-war rubbish and did buy it.

The picker had sent me some pictures of the fronts and backs of each item which I still have. Now that I have been on WAF for several years and had the chance to see what is accepted Belgium/ Flemish cloth/ metal badges look like. I realise that I turned down unissued/ "shop find" Belgium/ Flemish SS sleeve eagles, Belgium/ Flemish SS skulls, Belgium/ Flemish WH & LW eagles

My advise, do your homework here on WAF and beyond. There are some excellent threads about Belgium/ Flemish items. All collectors are justified in being extremely cautious given the level of reproductions floating around today. Throw out the dirt but be careful not to throw the diamonds with it.

Same advise for Italian, Dutch and all 3rd Reich foreign made items/ insignia,

Chris