Hand embroidered standard bearers sleeve insignia

**ToddMalnar** · 02-10-2015, 04:50 AM

Hello all,

I cam across this on ebay today, hence the covered swastikas, and was wondering if these were ever made by hand? I have only ever seen these sleeve insignia as machine woven. Any opinions would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Todd

Hand embroidered standard bearers sleeve insignia

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-10-2015 04:50 AM

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**rbminis** · 02-10-2015, 06:13 AM

Apparently these are being reproduced in Pakistan. Not near high enough quality embroidery.
Compare with this one for sale on WAF.
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Ralph.

**Gwar** · 02-10-2015, 07:05 AM

To hand embroider such items would take about 3-4 weeks each.. Not a simple task and the amount of these would have taken an army of their own IMO..G

**Glenn66** · 02-10-2015, 01:55 PM

Lots of cheap labor in Pakistan!

**ToddMalnar** · 02-10-2015, 03:08 PM

Thanks for the input everyone. I thought this guy looked pretty clumsy myself. Cheers!

**Wilhelm Saris** · 02-10-2015, 05:37 PM

If the shown one is okay, I cannot tell for 100%, but the question in post 1 was:
if these were ever made by hand?

Often it is said just only woven did exist, but that is not correct.
I do have a price-list for army insignia with on page 8 article-number 1594:
Fahnenträger (Dienst), which was woven and Fahnenträger (extra), which was
hand-embroidered (handgestickter Kunstseide). The last one was quite expensive:
12,- Rm in contrary to the woven version 1,40 Rm.
The price-list was number 112 from November 1937 from J.F. Riedeler K.G.
from Heilbronn.

The shown one anyway is not from Kunstseide.