A Fine Pair Of Prussian 3Rd Regiment, Queen Elisabeth Grenadier Guards Epaulettes Buy Now A fine early quality manufacture

A fine early quality manufacture textbook example of a Paratrooper/Fallschirmjäger badge

As ordinary S

clipped to a full-length neck ribbon with hook and eye

maker marked "Richard Sieper & Söhne Lüdenscheid" on the reverse

196 mm x 247 mm

A Fine Pair Of Prussian 3Rd Regiment, Queen Elisabeth Grenadier Guards Epaulettes Buy Now A fine early quality manufactureDress pair "banjo" style, stiff framed epaulettes with burlap supports forming the undersides, uppers in yellow (gold) raised crescent shaped copper gilded rim enclosing four fire gilt insignias, incorporating a large "E" (Queen Elisabeth) surmounted by a crown and flanked by pips on either side, designing the rank as that of Hauptmann (Captain), the protruding tabs trimmed in a 16 mm wide band of finely braided ribbon fabricated from silvered bullion