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TetVet1/1/26
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TetVet1/1/26

Here is a Cape Gloucester patch. I think it is the real deal. Threads burn and it is a no glow (I know. Only a couple of tests. etc.) I remember when and exactly where I got it. It was the Summer of 1956 before I entered JrHS. It was in downtown San Francisco in a small souvenir shop that had a few shoe boxes filled with military insignia left over from WW2/Korea (I assume). It was on the north side of Market St. only a few buildings away from a movie theater. (That part of the block was torn down in the early '70's and turned into a street for easier access to Market Street.) This patch was in a box just with a few other USMC patches. This was the only Cape Gloucester patch in the box. (Something I had never seen before.) I bought all the USMC patches that were in the box that time. (I remember that I borrowed money from my grandmother to go to a movie and to get more patches.) Other boxes that on the shelf had army patches (I also picked up some one piece 13th Abn Div od bordered patches then. Another patch had never seen before) or DI's, rank insignia, those Navy inside the cuff decorative rectangle patches etc., etc.

 

I know that the eastern patch mills were pumping out patches & selling old stocks of patches for years after WW2. If an Army/Navy or surplus store opened up they would need patches. So they would send in an order to a mill or mills and they would receive shoe boxes full of patches. I think the stores would have to take what was sent and not pick and choose. They'd get the shipment, staple a patch to the front of the shoe box and put the boxes of patches on the shelves.

 

I welcome any an all opinions. Like I said earlier I am a jack of all trades and master of none!

 

Thank you in advance.

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