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Article about: Hello friends out there! I need your expertise on this armband. It's on its way home to me already, I can get a refund if you guys on the forum don't like it. I ordered it because I think it

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    Quote by Fred Green View Post
    Hello,

    There are at least 17 different versions shown in Angolia/Schlicht's book UNIFORMS AND TRADITIONS OF THE GERMAN ARMY Vol 2.

    Fred
    Was Angolia 100% without flaw or discrepancy ?? By the way Fred, I highly regard your comments and insight considering you reputation and knowledge of period TR items... G
    I'd rather be A "RaD Man than a Mad Man "

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    Quote by Gwar View Post
    Was Angolia 100% without flaw or discrepancy ??
    A very just question which was needed to be added. Angolia was a broad spectrum writer so his cloth books always have discrepancies.
    Also note that his work was written in 1986, so it is quite dated.
    Morris

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    Currently being sold for 9 Euro, same stamp.....
    However this is just my humble opinion that it is bad.
    Volkssturm armband variant

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    I went thru my older Reddick catalogs, & have found out that in their catalog #5, the armband is yellowish-tan, & that in their catalog #6, the armband shows up as a dark brown. Perhaps the color difference is due to the re-printing of the catalog, where it came out brown instead of the yellowish-tan.

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    Or... that the faker decided to make them in 2 different colors for higher sales.

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    I have not encountered a Volkssturm band in this configuration in over 50 years of being in the hobby. I would not want it in my collection without Much more proof and verification from period photographs or catalogs. Until then, it would be nothing but a "what if" worry...
    William

    "Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."

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    Wow, thank you all for your opinions and information. The armband did not arrive today so it will be here tomorrow but I will not be satisfied with it in my collection after seeing all this. And the picture with the four different armbands for 9 euro each killed my hope for this item.

    But now I can at least investigate the object and feel how a fake one feels in my hand.

    Thank you guys, you are the best.

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    That is a great attitude to have. We do our best in collecting these items and each and every one is an education good or bad.

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    I have never encountered a Volksturm armband with a property stamp. I would be very suspicious of this especially as it is an odd variant pattern.
    BOB

    LIFE'S LOSERS NEVER LEARN FROM THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS.

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    Thank you gentlemen I will upload my own pictures later today when I got the time.
    It looks old (but fakes can be very old too) and are very crude. No special smell.

    But even if I liked the item, it is to many doubts in this history.

    The ink stamp say "Deutscher Volkssturm Gau 22" over the eagle and below it says ___ Kompanie and 133. Batallion.

    The thing that gives me a headache is that the ink stamp looks very,very similar to this one from this thread
    https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/soldb...amburg-533329/
    Click to enlarge the picture Click to enlarge the picture Volkssturm armband variant  

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