RFC/ RAF Observers Brevet genuine?

**bananamafia** · 03-31-2014, 03:18 PM

I have just come across this brevet, any ideas if its real?
if so any ideas on rough age of this particular one?

many thanks

**asterperious** · 03-31-2014, 06:01 PM

It is a good one, more likely late 1930's early part of WW II. The RFC ones tended to have more of an upward swoop and made from silk and not as heavily padded as this.

**CampX** · 03-31-2014, 06:05 PM

I think this is post WW1, as I have had a couple of WW1 "Wings" of this type, I think it is 100% correct for pre-WW2, maybe the late 20s or early 30s.
I would think rarer than WW1, however a smaller collecting base...Just my thoughts

Dean O
Ajax Canada

**big ned** · 03-31-2014, 06:16 PM

They used to be known as "The Flying Ar$hole".....!!!

**asterperious** · 03-31-2014, 08:42 PM

by big ned

They used to be known as "The Flying Ar$hole".....!!!

Now they are just called 'pilots'

**Michael Ryan** · 03-31-2014, 09:03 PM

Hi, Nice single wing brevet and dead right. The Observer brevet was still a stock item held at 14MU Carlisle until the 70/80s well after all of the entitled aviators had retired from the RAF. Yours is likely to be post WWII issue but may well be WWII stock. Hard to tell.
Cheers MR