ss/police diamond

[sscrooge]

heres a new addition of mine, hope you like

[OKCmike]

SScrooge- Love the embroidery work on those police eagles. Do you know if there is any significance to the different colors used on them? I'm relatively new to collecting TR suff, and have just been involved in daggers for year & half. Having worked in law enforcement for past 18 yr.s or so though, I find myself getting really interesed in police items from that era.

Regards- Mike

[sscrooge]

hi mike, sorry i have only just started collecting police items myself just to display with my police helmets and not too clued up on it yet, rgds dave

[OKCmike]

Hey Dave,
Some info. I've gleaned from surfing around is that those embroidered in gold bullion were for Wasserschtzpolizei and general officers and those in silver were for all other branches. The named eagles were worn by the NCOs. By Mid War the colored and bullion sleeve eagles were discontinued and were replaced by standardized machine woven, bevo type eagle. Credit for this bit of info. goes to a Mr. Bill Unland and not myself. I want to get a police crash helmet myself, but got to pay off this Tschako I recently purchased first.

Regards, Mike

[sscrooge]

thanks Mike, for the info:thumbup: i have no tschakos or crash helmets, my love is the combat lids i have an m35,m40 and m42 d/d police i love the look of these lids, thanks again dave