private border guard shoulder boards
Hello Guys,
Did anyone has already seen or possessed a pair of wartime private border guard field shoulderboards ( green piped)? I have (and seen) some officer's field pairs , or service private shoulderboards (green with raspberry piping), but I have never seen a pair of field shoulderboards for private, caporal or sergeant.
Thank you for your answer.
Jean sebastien
JS,
I personally, have never seen such a pair. I'm sure that they are among the rarest of field shoulder boards. It may be worth asking our Russian colleagues on one of their discussion forums.
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Hello Richie, thank you for your answer which confirms my feeling. This situation is strange. Why are they so rare? i know that border troops had many looses and hard fights, but "rare" should be a bit different than "impossible to find". Some pairs are rare too (private field NKVD or RCM for example) but sometimes such a pair is on sale.
Even post war or 50's pairs of field private border troops are very uncommon.
Regards.
I would think they would look like this - less the stripes and stars, of course.
Images courtesy of our associate; Boaris.
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Beautifull! It is a Lend lease fabric, isn't it? Many field NKVD's boards are made of this type of fabric, and many NKVD's gym too. 70% of l'y NKVD uniforms ( gymnasterkas or kitels) are lend-leased.
Hello,
Definitively difficult ones to find.
Here is one (on the right) from the 50's I suppose that unfortunatly came alone
Bruno
Hello Bruno, nice to see these examples. Even field officer's boards are difficult to find.
Yes JS, the background material is Lend-Lease Fabric.
A lot of uniform items in general (not only NKVD) were constructed from such material - well into the 1950s.
Bruno, you need to swap stars between the two cornflower piped shoulder-boards....
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the only pair that I found.
very nice!!! Happy to finally see one. Mine are more common:
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