Special Air Service Shoulder titles

[Jerry B]

A single 21st SAS (Artists) title and two pairs of Special Air Service titles, the first is 1947-54, the others are 54 to mid 60's.

[Phill Lockett]

Hi Jerry

Thanks for showing. Always good to see variations and a time period when worn.

Always thought paste back was WWII.

Cheers

Phill

[Jerry B]

Thanks Phil.

Pastebacks usually are WWII, but not exclusively it seems.

Certainly with SAS titles, war time titles just had SAS on them and sometimes a number, post war the first type is SAS with the number 21st and Artists in a brackets as shown, quite a rare title to find these days and expensive if you can find one, next came the middle type which has Artists in a bracket below the full spelling Special Air Service which was often cutoff (if you look you can see where it was cutoff) when the following title was introduced almost immediately, the version with just Special Air Service, which is the bottom set.

The sequence of post war SAS Titles and badges are borrowed from the net posted by one of the best known SAS collectors.

[Phill Lockett]

Excellent informative follow up Jerry.

I have a Staffordshire cloth title that was Id by Post Warden as mid to late 50's paste back .

cheers

Phill