This is the garbage find of the day! I am 99.9% sure that it's a 1970s fake, but I figured it was worth posting up for discussion.
Either way way, it's an interesting find and not bad for free!
SS FM Armband for Review
This is the garbage find of the day! I am 99.9% sure that it's a 1970s fake, but I figured it was worth posting up for discussion.
Either way way, it's an interesting find and not bad for free!
Re: SS FM Armband for Review
Hello, of course fake!
Re: SS FM Armband for Review
Looks fantasy to me. I have never seen that before
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
Re: SS FM Armband for Review
Not so much a fake as a complete fantasy item. No SS-FM armband ever existed.
(Actually, even the notion seems somewhat absurd. Why should there be an armband for the dues-paying, passive, patron members of the SS organization?)
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Could go with a lovely twisty wire combat fantasy helmet nicely!
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Thanks for the confirmation, gentlemen!
While very inexperienced in SS items, I feel like I have an idea of what actually existed and what is fantasy. However, I always stand to be corrected and I must admit that this armband IS well made.
Live and learn... AND it's nice to have a fake and NOT get burnt by it.
I know this is a fantasy piece, but was the FM an actual organization? If so, what was the FM?
Re: SS FM Armband for Review
It could be authentic for one of those hate groups that are present today. As it might be their design for their clan. Just speculation. Interesting though. I also just found this link with ALL KINDS OF ARMBANDS with the one posted being one of them. Third Reich SS FM Armband
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Re: SS FM Armband for Review
FM stands for Fördernde Mitglieder. These were not active SS men, but patron members (both male and female) who made regular financial contributions to the SS organization, the minimun being 1.-- RM per month.by GIZMO8Z
The FM organization had been in existence since the mid-1920s and was deactivated in the autumn of 1939 with the outbreak of WW2.
The SS/FM/Swastika design on this armband is taken from the stickpin that could be worn by the FMs.
Have a look here for some SS-FM-related items:
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ss-un...-za-pin-931-2/
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another one...German WW2 Armbands
It is not the size of a Collection in History that matters......Its the size of your Passion for it!!
One never knows what tree roots push to the surface of what laid buried before the tree was planted - Larry C
“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” - Winston Churchill
Re: SS FM Armband for Review
This is a Delta International special of the late 1960s, to include the stamp. I had a stamp from them of this type. The paper RZM tag was one of their specialties, too.
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