Airborne insignia on BD

[giorgos p]

Hello fellow collectors it has been a long time since my last post and i have a question for the experts are the insignia shown original on not? Thank you in advance for your opinions!

[Watchdog]

I don't have good feelings about this combination.

Firstly the pictures are nowhere near the quality needed to asses the insignia itself.

However, the badges look to me to be totally without wear and seem to be freshly attached. I believe I can see the bright red thread used to attach the Airborne strip for sure.

That "Airborne" strip in itself would raise questions for me as it was intended to be worn by non-parachute ie glider troops and shouldn't be found together with the "Parachute" or "Parachute Regiment" titles.

The whole group of badges look to me from these pictures to be some of the very good repro items currently on the legitimate re-enactor market..

As I say, much better pics needed but for me the combination is wrong anyway. Also I am not at all sure about the "slip over" on the epaulette but can't recognise the colour or the material.

See what our airborne specialists think.

Regards

Mark

[giorgos p]

Thank you Mark for your opinion and I am looking forward for the experts!

Regards

George

[prosty zolnierz]

Dusty says

[Jerry B]

Apart from commenting that against the regs sometimes airborne and para titles were worn together, everything else mark said is correct, not something I would buy.

[Watchdog]

Apart from commenting that against the regs sometimes airborne and para titles were worn together, everything else mark said is correct, not something I would buy.

Hi Gerry, dead right of course. Squaddies being what they are the world over and allowing for the proclivities of individual unit commanders plus the cachet of the word "Airborne" hardly surprising.

I didn't mention that as I thought it might muddy the waters a little when the piece shown is clearly a "duck egg"

Perhaps I should have so thanks for the added input

Regards

Mark

[Jerry B]

6th Airborne div were issued and wore the airborne strip and para titles. It wad an error as Mark suggested, only attached non parachute regiment were meant to wear them.
An original and genuine Caen area barnfind sold earlier this year.

[giorgos p]

Thanks everyone i shall return the BD as the dealer is a friend of mine therefore there would be no problem, thanks everyone for your opinions!