Visor chin cords? How to tell war-time from post-war?

[martinsuper]

Simple question: How do you tell the difference between a visor officer chin cord that was made during the war, vs right after the war, vs East German?

If some one has good pictures to prove their point that would be a plus!

Thank you in advance!

-Martin

[Velasco]

Im going to refresh this thread because Im looking exactly same responses and I found this thread but no responses at all....
I would like to learn theses differences between WW2 and postwar, DDR chin cords...
Thanks in advance for helping
Fernando

[ErWeSa]

I don't know why nobody answered to the thread back then. This topic has, however, been treated since in several threads, see here:

identifying these visor cap chin cords

Chinstrap Officer W SS

Artillery officer visor cap genuine?

and there are more, as far as I remember.

[stonemint]

1. Look for the braids in this direction: //////////////////////
2. Use a UV light to look for glow under the bullion.
3. On originals, the knot inserts are primarily leather or metal (usually zinc)--plastic is a no-no.
4. Period cords are droopy (ie, flaccid), and not stiff like a lot of postwar ones.

[Velasco]

Thanks Chris for your useful response

[rbminis]

I don't know why nobody answered to the thread back then. This topic has, however, been treated since in several threads, see here:

I was looking for some of these yesterday, but since I don't spend a lot of time in the head gear section, I couldn't find them.
I knew someone would remember where they were.
Ralph.

[stonemint]

This reminds me that one of my projects was a chincord reference (by organisation), as so may are mistakenly identified.
One of these days.....