Ski jager cap badges - whats the story?

**Danmark** · 07-25-2013, 11:21 AM

So whats the consensus of opinion on ski-jager cap badges? What is a good one and what is a bad? Here is a selection of differing styles lifted from the web - are any good? ....... what do we look for in the search for one?

Thanks in advance guys.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 07-25-2013 11:21 AM

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**Danmark** · 07-25-2013, 11:37 PM

Don't tell me I've stumped the forum?
Are these skijager pieces so shrouded in uncertainty that we just dont know what is correct and what is not? Should collectors give them a wide berth maybe?

**Danmark** · 07-30-2013, 10:48 PM

** BTT **

Hi all, I REALLY would like to know more about these critters. 20 of our finest regulars & mods ( with much knowledge ) have looked at the pictures without leaving a comment. Put me out of my misery someone please .........

Respectfully, Dan

**gel65** · 07-31-2013, 12:44 AM

This is something that I have thought about I have not seen a picture with one of these in it ever. These pieces sure do have some age but who knows are these just something made up in the 60s

**Adrian Stevenson** · 07-31-2013, 07:34 AM

Never held a real one in my collecting career. These are rare and I have never done any research into them.

Cheers, Ade.

**Danmark** · 07-31-2013, 07:49 AM

From what I have read the regiments were raised mid 1944 and fought exclusively on the eastern front. Many think the cap badges were modified jager ones with a civilian ski soldered or pinned on, others think they never existed at all and these that turn up are all post war creations. I don't know myself but they have never made a faker rich and the quality seems fair. Just an unusual item that no one seems to have a definite view on.
Thanks for giving your points of view.

**Panzer trooper** · 07-31-2013, 07:59 AM

I have a couple of these badges one with the ski and one without they both have some sort of marking on them but don't know if the 100% or not picked them up for next to nothing so probably post war.

**Adrian Stevenson** · 07-31-2013, 08:00 AM

I have seen a badge in one wartime pic in Brian L Davis' book. The guy wearing it was GFP.

Cheers, Ade.

**Panzer trooper** · 07-31-2013, 08:31 AM

Here's the ones ive got.

**Danmark** · 07-31-2013, 10:11 AM

by Adrian Stevenson

I have seen a badge in one wartime pic in Brian L Davis' book. The guy wearing it was GFP.

Cheers, Ade.

Was this the photo Ade? ....... is it a ski jager badge or just jager? - too small to discern details.

Then theres this one - has been colourized but dated 1944 near Pripyat, in the Ukraine

Dan