Nobody?
The images you present prohibit us from replying sooner than what seems to be convenient for you - as they are of bad quality.
Have your "seller" photograph or scan individual qualitative images of each set - both obverse and reverse is most desirable - post them here - and I promise you, all available that are in the know will indeed convey their opinions within a reasonable amount of time...
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!
Hi Kaj, as Richies says, better pics are needed.
The seller is broadly correct. These could be wartime or equally they could be 1950's.
Cheers, Ade.
Hey Richie & Adrian,
I've already asked for better scans. Apart of that, im a little suspicious myself about these shoulder boards. I've done my research to these shoulder boards yesterday and not one of the ww2 era shoulder boards I've found on the internet are matching these. These are the color codes:
red with white piping
red with white piping and golden stripe
purple with black piping
blue with dark blue piping
blue with black piping
blue with black piping and golden stripe
Better scans will be added today.
Kaj
This style of board has confused me a bit over the recent years. Why no loop underneath? And why the low quality tongue? My first thoughts are of course, fake - and of course our Russian collector associates would scream the same (with little to no reason why they do so BTW)...
Who knows?
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The boards with the purple field and the black piping especially interest me.
No written reference anywhere documents this color combination.
However, neither does the same combo tell me that this cap I show now is something that has/has not existed and nobody knows about... Even to our esteemed Russian collector/associates.
As far as I am concerned - and I have been passionately concerned with this genre for many years, this cap is R-E-A-L, from the 50s BTW - IMO of course, and attributed to some obscure Soviet military or state organisation:
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!
So basically what you are saying is that these shoulder boards are definitely not WW2 era? And about the color codes. I cant find any matching shoulder boards on the web, so my guess is that these are fake shoulder boards that never have been existed in the Soviet army.
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!
Many thanks.
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