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My dad sent this back home to his girl (later my mother). I'm not sure what the proper way to display it was. I've seen some framed like a picture and hung on the wall.

 

Greg

 

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A lot of these were made as pillow shams (covers). Is yours a wall hanging or a pillow sham?

 

SARGE,

 

Mine is just folded like a hankie would be. Now that you mention pillows, I think I've seen them made up as such. Could be mom just never got around to doing it or preferred it this way.

 

Thanks for the input,

 

Greg

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Greg,

 

The variety of these things is simply staggering. There is a military museum in St. Joseph, MO that has dozens of these on display... all different. The museum displays them on a rotating rack, rather like a tea towell rack on steroids. The 8' tall rack must have originally been meant to display towels in a department store or something. Not too good for your display purposes but it works great for the museum.

 

Thanks for showing it!

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Hello everyone,

I wanted to show you all my pillow cover. It's my one and only pillow cover, but I like it because it's from the 112th IR, 28th ID. Hope you like it. Please post you're pillow covers if you want to.

 

Edit: Oops seems I can't find the photo's, I will post them tomorrow. Sorry :unsure:

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Hello everyone posting pillow cases, here are a few from my collection, they cover various branches of the forces, also ranging from WWI, mid-wars, WWII.

One to note is the framed Paratroop one for Ft. Benning it shows the first para wings when they were straight like airforce ones, before the wing-tips were curved into the recognisable regular para wings. I think mention is made of this style of wing in the book ' Paratrooper' by Gavin. Cheers ( Lewis )

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craig_pickrall

Ken, that is probably the single most impressive collection of pillow covers I have seen. Very nice!

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Hi Craig, thanks for the complimentry words on the pillow covers. I have a one-off hand embroidered cover featuring Betty Boo with a 29th Inf Div patch on her garrison cap, I will try to find that and post later. Cheers ( Lewis )

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Hi Craig, thanks for the complimentry words on the pillow covers. I have a one-off hand embroidered cover featuring Betty Boo with a 29th Inf Div patch on her garrison cap, I will try to find that and post later. Cheers ( Lewis )

 

Very impressive!

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Hi Craig & Forum Support, thanks again for the booster on the covers. I found the Betty Boo cover, it is a one-off hand embroidered cover, it shows Betty blowing a bugle and wearing a 29th Inf. Div. patch on her garrison. There is some wear to some of the threads mainly on her sleeve chevrons and a little more to her hair. I still think it's an outstanding cover though, and obviously hours of loving care went into making it for someone with a connection to the 29th. Cheers ( Lewis )

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craig_pickrall

That is a neat cover. A one off hand made from the looks. Did you notice the 29th patch is backward? The blue should be to the left.

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Hi Craig, thanks for pointing out that the 29th patch is back to front, that's because she is wearing the female ' no sense or reason' version. Hee Hee Cheers ( Lewis )

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I listed this one on another thread thinking it was a wall hanging not thinking about a pillow sham. SARGE set me straight. This is WWII vintage sent home by my dad.

 

Greg

 

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