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SS gorget

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Does anyone know of a SS specific Feldgendarmerie gorget, or are the repro style ones a fantasy item?
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Watchdog wrote:Does anyone know of a SS specific Feldgendarmerie gorget, or are the repro style ones a fantasy item?
SS Feldgendarmerie wore the same pattern of gorget as the army. The only variations were the Luftwaffe version and those for the Kommandantur, Feldjägerkorps, Bahnhofswache etc.

The only SS specific gorget issued widely was the one for the Italian SS Feldgendarmerie.

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Would that have the Sig runes on it,I picked up an obvious repro one. Never seen one like it I wondered if it had any basis in reality,obviously not! Thanks Dave.
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Watchdog wrote:Would that have the Sig runes on it,I picked up an obvious repro one. Never seen one like it I wondered if it had any basis in reality,obviously not! Thanks Dave.
No, the Italian one has the word 'Gendarmeria' on it and the Italian style eagle.

The one you have sounds like it is either a fantasy piece, or it's a copy of one of the pre war SS (not Waffen-SS) parade gorgets, possibly for a standrad bearer or somesuch. Do you have a picture?
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I'll dig it out in the week and take a picture.
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