Latvia & the Waffen SS
Latvia & the Waffen SS
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Great pictures being posted in documents and paper. Anyways, I just purchased this. I hope it's real but I never heard of these being faked. Then again I don't know a lot...
Great pictures being posted in documents and paper. Anyways, I just purchased this. I hope it's real but I never heard of these being faked. Then again I don't know a lot...
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Lativa & The SS
Sigh, I thought this was pretty off the wall, not to common. Oh well.CHRISCHA wrote:As with most SS regalia, and especially something as easy as cloth, you can rest assured it will have been faked.
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David Littlejohn's Foreign Legions of The Third Reich Vol.4 shows a shield like this with the black backing cloth. It is described as
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Tapani K.
This does not, of course, prove that the shield in your picture, stcamp, is real, but I am not sure that Greg is quite right in what he writes.the final official version which is in style of other S.S. "foreign volunteer" arm shields in this period.
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Tapani K.
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I think you are all misunderstanding me...yes..the final pattern SS shield has black boarders..that is not what I am talking about..it is the edging around the white diagonal stripe, and the edging around the read field that I say is wrong. I have never seen an original shield done in this way...my opinion..unless I see a photograph or other documentation...this is a bad shield..it is a copy of the final pattern..The references you point to show the correct final patteren..not this one. Here is a real shield...
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