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4 decals Abziehbilder Stahlhelm Abzeichen wasserlösliche Helmabzeichen M 35 M 40

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SS Enlisted man / NCO visor

Good afternoon to all

I would like your opinion on the following piece please :

The sweatband is replaced … can’t make an opinion about the insignas …

Many thanks in advance

Best Regards

K.

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Two new tabs for my SS insignia collection

Just added these two and I am paying on a early Brigadefuher Tab also.

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Is this a West German Police or BGS Helmet?

Hi Guys. My first post is a call for assistance in helping to ID a helmet I’m contemplating buying. Its listed as a postwar German police helmet. Looks like an M35/50? Its being sold for a reasonable price if kosher.

On the plus side:
1. Colour looks right
2. Liner looks right - nine tongues plus holes in sweatband etc.
3. Air vent hole looks right

On the con side:

1. Liner stamped M-1943 - faked up by some unscrupulous German perhaps to sell to tourists?
2. No stamps on the steel - though I gather some postwar helmets were not marked
3. Chin strap fastener doesn’t look right

Any assistance that you can give in helping to ID this helmet would be much appreciated. I already own WW2-era M40 and M42, and I’m keen on acquiring a postwar German police or BGS helmet. But I’m also worried about ending up with a Chinese fake!

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Commemorative Medals of the Empire of Japan

Commemorative Medals of the Empire of Japan

Foreword

As I had already finished writing a complete history of Japanese War Medals, I thought I might start something on the commemorative medals.

Whereas each conflict earned itself a war medal more or less automatically, there was no inherent justification or need for commemorative medals, unless the occasion itself unanimously deserved commemoration as a historic milestone or unless someone with a political agenda and clout actively campaigned for one.

Thus commemorative medals had more room for interpretation and therefore possible abuse. So the event first had to speak for itself, and then in order to prevent making a big deal out of trivial events, the Decorations Bureau would screen medals of the world for comparable precedent as a check.

We will see, however, that until Japan got the hang of it, sometimes it ended up issuing superfluous medals like the 25th Wedding Anniversary Medal, blindly emulating European tradition that did not really seem to have any mileage in Japan.

Either way, unlike my stories on war medals, there needs to be more on the event or occasion itself and its historical significance; because why they decided to issue the medal in the first place is a key question.

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