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22-02-11, 01:49 AM
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French Foreign Legion 2 REP beret badge
I have just been given a French Foreign Legion 2nd Parachute Regiment (2 REP) cap badge. I have checked references on the internet and all examples are in white/silver metal. The one I have looks like gilding on top of brass. Most of the original gilding has rubbed off but it's brass/gilding metal underneath. The maker's mark on the rear reads 'DRAGO - 3 RUE DE ROMAINVILLE - PARIS'.
Is this genuine as the brass colouring seems wrong? 
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22-02-11, 02:40 AM
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It seems that you have an old model of the French airborne cap badge. The ones that have seen are like yours. The address for Drago on Rue de Romainville is for the 1952-1960 period.BTW the badge is for all army airborne forces.
Jo
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22-02-11, 02:52 AM
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Voltigeur
Many thanks. I didn't realise it was for all French Army paratroops. A little research is like a little knowedge, a dangerous thing. Still worried about the brass colouring but the maker's name on the back seems to make it seem genuine, as suggested.
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#6
22-02-11, 11:54 AM
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hi,
id be happy with the drago marking as to my knowledge this has not been faked yet. philip
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#8
22-02-11, 07:31 PM
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Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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#10
13-09-11, 04:26 AM
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Re: the brass colouring on the badge, I have read it was a common practice amongst the more junior members of 2 REP to rub away the silver finish on the cap badge to reveal the brass underneath.
This was to make the owners of the badges look like "old sweats".
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09-01-16, 09:12 AM
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