Odal Rune Armband Help

**Eric Zentner** · 10-28-2011, 10:37 PM

Just picked this up for a good price so I thought I would take a chance on it.
It passes black light and burn test but I have never seen another like it.
Looks like a youth diamond with the Odal Rune Any ideas fantasy or post use??

Eric

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-28-2011 10:37 PM

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**Eric Zentner** · 10-29-2011, 02:42 AM

Anyone have a idea?

**BOB COLEMAN** · 10-29-2011, 04:48 AM

It is likely a fantasy piece as I have no idea what purpose it would serve.

**Wagriff** · 10-29-2011, 05:49 AM

The Odal Rune was used by the SS Race and Settlement Office as well as the 7th SS Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division "Prinz Eugen". Somehow,though, I doubt it has even Seen German soil much less been associated with either outfits. It was/is also used by the South African Student Federation/Afrikaner Student Federation, but not in a Triangle and in black,not blue, so that rules That out too. The Rune in most cases shows various small differences too. I am thinking that more likely than not, that Bob said it best first, that this is just a made-up thing for no actual groups. I can't imagine why it would be cheaply printed instead of a sewn insignia. William

**Good Pwny** · 10-29-2011, 06:14 AM

Did you blacklight it and/or burn test it?

**Eric Zentner** · 10-29-2011, 06:45 AM

Yes I did black light and burn test GP here is what I got from BL TEST ON WHITE BED SHEET..

**Good Pwny** · 10-29-2011, 06:55 AM

I know little about armbands, but it has no glow imo. Seems to be pretty old. Plus, I don't see why anyone would try to fake such a piece. I'm really interested to find out what's up with this item. I assume the burn test yielded ash, and not plastic like balls.

**Eric Zentner** · 10-29-2011, 07:03 AM

As you said only ash...

Eric

**Good Pwny** · 10-29-2011, 08:00 AM

Hmmmm... IDK, but maybe it's a unique piece. Got me stumped!

**HPL2008** · 10-29-2011, 08:53 AM

I can't tell whether this one is original or not, but it is actualy not German, but French. This is a brassard for the Rassemblement National Populaire (R.N.P.), a French collaborationist party founded by Marcel Déat in February 1941.

It is actually upside down, by the way: This is not supposed to be an Odal-Rune, but a stylized letter "Gamma".

(Although the similiarity to an inverted Odal-Rune was probably quite deliberate.)

For examples of the symbol in use (including one showing the brassard), please see:

War 1939-1945. Talk about Marcel DÃ©at during a congress of the R.N.P. Paris, room Lancry, in May, 1944. LAPI-24922
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6874/1141890097.jpg
http://www.vertetplume.com/blog/wp-c...41-475x663.jpg