Are you really sure, Tony? As you wrote in your description, this a very particular cockade for such two ranks of Vizefeldwebel and Feldwebel. I personaly think that your scarce cockade is genuine!I have discovered that the Kokarde on my Hessen LIR115 HERE is a replica replacement.
Tony- many of my examples are the same as yours...
James
No need for apologies Tony, I found the discussion about these kokarden very interesting to read!Apologies everyone. I hijacked that eBay Hessen Kokarde thread, and found a way to split the thread as these postings were very useful and interesting. So this is the replacement thread.