Derf Posted May 31, 2023 Share #1 Posted May 31, 2023 Hello everyone, i need your help, english isn't my theme and I would like to know if this badges and title are ok? I would like to know how to recognize a good one or a Fake ( on USA stuff it's easy but english seem to be more difficult) Have a good day and thanks in advance for your answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonomachi Posted May 31, 2023 Share #2 Posted May 31, 2023 Here is what I see and this is just my opinion as I have been wrong in the past (see link). I believe you have a legitimate WW2 era British battle dress jacket that someone has sewn on a pair of post war combined operations patches and a pair of fake 6th Commando tabs to deceive. If you look at the circa 1953 combined operations patch in the collection of Phillock and Otter42 (see link) they seem to match the pair of combined operations patches on this jacket. I have put together a side by side comparison with the patches on the jacket and the pair belonging to Phillock and they seem to match. So you have to ask yourself why are post war insignia sewn on a WW2 era uniform? I also don't care for the look of the 6th Commando tab as well. There were a couple of variations of this tab but the closest original variant to the one sewn on this jacket is pictured below and to me they don't match. Again I was wrong about the combined operations patch belonging to Otter42 but I believe someone has put this uniform together to deceive collectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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