Hello,
I bought this a week ago and the seller told me that this Y-strab ok whas.
I ask your opinion.
I bought this a week ago and the seller told me that this Y-strab ok whas.
I ask your opinion.
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y straps
Sorry to say these are post war Austrian padded Y straps not WW2 German let alone GJ straps. Hope you can get your money back and hope you didn't pay alot for them. 1st clue is the triangular metal ring and 2nd is the padding stitched onto the back of the main straps -
Yep, sorry to say these are not German Y straps.
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Tom
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Yes Robert-Jan, look out with Y-Straps, there is much fake and most sellers say that they are original, but don't believe the sellers.
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These straps appeared in a book that came out about 15 years ago. It was called something like Waffen SS Uniforms in Colour Photographs or something like that. There was a photo series of a Waffen-SS Gebirgsjager wearing these straps and they were reported to be "special padded Y-straps for the Gebirgstruppen."
I was a much younger and less experienced collector then, and I bought a pair form Bill Shea around 1995, because hey...how could the book be wrong and if Bill Shea is selling them, they must be correct?
Well, after I bought them I saw that the date and maker's mark stamped into the leather looked too new. It didn't match the wear of the straps. I was in college then and had access to the libraries of 5 of the best colleges in the US, so I did some research. I could find no historical evidence of these straps as WWII issue. The internet was just getting fired up then as well, and I was a member of one of AOL's militaria chat rooms in its infancy. A few of the members on that forum also confirmed my suspicions.
So, to make a long story short, I agree with pzrwest, MP44_Tom, and Messerschmitt. From what I learned these are indeed Austrian or West German post war straps, and as pzrwest mentioned, not even GJ.
By the way, I explained to Bill Shea what I learned about the straps and he took them back without even blinking an eye.Comment
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