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Welsh Guards Cloth Shoulder Titles
I’ve read everything I can about WG titles here on the board, including some the round v square discussion.
I’m somewhat at a loss about these below - does anyone think these have a chance at being pre-1945 ? |
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Hi,
The thread seems to be synthetic, a simple burn test could help. If so they are post WW2. Normandie18 |
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Thank you, just conducted a test (against a thread of one that is 100% wartime wartime) they burn just the same.
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Quote:
Andy
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Leave to carry on Sir please. |
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Thanks Andy, I picked them up at Brecon Show today, a fiver for all five - though it was worth a punt. I've popped them in a frame all the same.
I'm looking for a pair of original WW2 round or square edge titles if anyone has got some. |
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Am I reading this wrong? If the thread burns the same as a wartime one, i.e. being cotton so not bubbling up, then would they not also be wartime? Referring to post 3.
A Black Light test is also a very good way to check the thread. Cotton thread shoudl not glow, but synthetic threads glow like neon. Terry |
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Synthetic threads embroideries are post WW2, but cotton threads embroideries are not inevitably WW2. Normandie18 |
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I have to agree, the reverse looks postwar
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I too would agree that these titles are all post 1945; some perhaps not very long after however.
Printed or paste backs, with some exceptions of course, are generally accepted to be of war time make. CB
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"We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more." Sam. Johnson |
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Hello Rhys1,
i know absolutely nothing about army cloth shoulder titles, but i have this pair, and it looks to me old and "battleworn" If you like and went them, PM me, i can send them in a normal letter between some sheets of paper (from Germany), regards Markus |
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Thank you everyone for your contribution - apologies - I thought I set alerts for the thread but evidently I didn’t !
Massive thank you for your help and support. I was very lucky yesterday to pick up a 3Bn Welsh Guards solid provenance vet grouping with a number of shoulder titles and other Welsh Guards ephemera. I’ll post it here soon. Thank you again, Gareth |
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