SD Oberscharfûhrer grouping for review

[KRISSE]

Hi guys, what your toughts on this grouping? Looks okay to me...

Thanks.



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[youthcollector1]

The tabs and RZM tag certainly appear genuine and it was not uncommon for such a cuff-title to be altered to a blank example. The "SD" on the raute has a somewhat strange shape but maybe it's just the angling of the photograph....still, wait for opinions.

By the way, the cuff-title once said R.u.S Hauptamt.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I think the first material there is junk.

[youthcollector1]

I think the first material there is junk.

I'll resign to FB's superior knowledge, he knows these things much better than I do. Though I had reservations about the cuff-title and raute, the collar tabs certainly had me fooled...especially the rzm tag, "pips" and overall material.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The Leimleinen is no good on at least one of the collar patches. I do not see any Leim in the Leinen, as it were.


The front of the collar patches does look good, but the buckram has no waterproof Tunche to keep its shape.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Leim=mucilage, which was impregnated in the linen parallelogram.....

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and the Gestapa/SD rhombus has awful embroidery.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

von wegen Stickerei.... I saved these images over the past decade.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

or....this is mine.

[KRISSE]

Thanks for the information. I'll let these go for sure.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Happy new year and happy collecting, with the proper Leimleinen.

I do not collect loose insignia and I do not rip off the collar patches on the tunics I do own, but I do collect the regulations and specifications on these items, as well take heed of common sense

that such a thing must stand up to wear and tear. Without the impregnated treatment the insignia would become unseemly when wet, or lumpy from constant folding, especially of a collar.