One of the great things about doing restorations for people is that you get to handle some pretty rare and cool stuff. So in this case, I am working on Al's Garde officer tschapka which has a beautiful classic wappen and I thought, why not post some pics of it plus a Garde Inf Officer from my collection for comparison? I mean how many times would the average collector get a chance to do this?? So here we go:
Some obvious differences...7 tail feathers on the tschapka wappen, 5 on the Garde Inf. Wing span tip to tip..Garde Ulan 13.5cm, 5.5", Garde Infantry 17.5cm, 6 7/8". The star (stern) on the Ulan is naturally smaller to correspond to the rest of it's wappen. Both have the typical screw post system on the back.
The Ulan star has finer brass prongs soldered to the star, then soldered to the bird itself. Unfortunately, this solder has broken over the years and thus the star is a bit loose on the eagle's chest. To be continued.
Neusilber Garde Wappen
The star is unusual in that it has a silver wash on the rays rather than nickel plating, this probably indicates wartime production as does the steel square nuts.
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Some obvious differences...7 tail feathers on the tschapka wappen, 5 on the Garde Inf. Wing span tip to tip..Garde Ulan 13.5cm, 5.5", Garde Infantry 17.5cm, 6 7/8". The star (stern) on the Ulan is naturally smaller to correspond to the rest of it's wappen. Both have the typical screw post system on the back.
The Ulan star has finer brass prongs soldered to the star, then soldered to the bird itself. Unfortunately, this solder has broken over the years and thus the star is a bit loose on the eagle's chest. To be continued.
Neusilber Garde Wappen
The star is unusual in that it has a silver wash on the rays rather than nickel plating, this probably indicates wartime production as does the steel square nuts.
This post has been renewed using the SmugMug host site.
