mortaydc60 Posted September 20, 2019 Share #1 Posted September 20, 2019 This patch is currently listed on eBay. The patch has an OD border,eye and tongue. The real and correct version the tongue is white. Saw this fantasy piece years ago and has resurfaced. Just wanted to make the members aware. Besides the tongue issue there are others but that should be enough to help you avoid this patch. Tried to resize pics but no luck will provide item number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wake1941 Posted September 20, 2019 Share #2 Posted September 20, 2019 Do you have the item number ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertrat Posted September 20, 2019 Share #3 Posted September 20, 2019 Is this it? https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-Cut-Edge-Screaming-Eagle-Patch-With-Gree-Tongue/372772513220 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortaydc60 Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share #4 Posted September 20, 2019 Yes that is the one,you were very quick and thanks for help. By the way there are other OD reproductions for sale but they are marked as such and pretty obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertrat Posted September 20, 2019 Share #5 Posted September 20, 2019 Thanks for the info. I was quick because it was on my watch list. I will continue to watch just to see if it sells and for how much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortaydc60 Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share #6 Posted September 20, 2019 Found another one to avoid that is OD but with red tongue. The problem here is that Mark Bando shows something like this on his site. I have never seen one but someone reading Marks site and seeing this patch may think they struck it rich. Item # 303287340450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted September 20, 2019 Share #7 Posted September 20, 2019 Looks like thread was used to make the od bdr, I had a 86th div with od bdr that looked the same. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 20, 2019 Share #8 Posted September 20, 2019 Said 101 patch from OP, what's that an OD Tongue we're seeing! and OD Eye! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Scott Posted September 21, 2019 Share #9 Posted September 21, 2019 Here is what a real one looks like.Scotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warcollect1942 Posted September 22, 2019 Share #10 Posted September 22, 2019 2 type 9s one red tongue one white tongue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortaydc60 Posted September 22, 2019 Author Share #11 Posted September 22, 2019 Maybe a third type according to Bando. Has pic of OD border with red tongue. Never saw one or even talked about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan H. Posted September 23, 2019 Share #12 Posted September 23, 2019 Mort, I was at SOS when Mark Bando showed me the OD border 101st patch that he had picked up there. This piece most certainly did NOT have veteran's provenance. The dealer that he purchased this patch from also had examples of the 86th and 87th Division OD border patches. All of them had the same odd colored OD borders like what you posted in #6. At the time, I told Mark that I didn't think that it was an original and that he ought to try to get his money back. M ark seemed to think that it had a chance and has since posted it up on his site. I find it interesting that these OD border patches are all made from Type 10 and Type 14 examples- most of which won't bring the same kind of money that a Type 1 through 9 will bring. My two cents. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Scott Posted September 23, 2019 Share #13 Posted September 23, 2019 Those red tongue OD borders turned up in the mid to late 1980s and in my opinion are another reproduction trying to be real.I have been in the rare patch business for 40 years and have never owned a real 86th or 87th Division OD Border and then on the same table a Red Tongue 101st.It sounds to me like a n episode from the Twilight Zone.Scotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Scott Posted September 23, 2019 Share #14 Posted September 23, 2019 I was looking at the one listed on post 6 and to make matters worse I think that OD border was added to it.If you blow up the photo both the front and back of that border are so ragged it looks hand done.Scotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted September 23, 2019 Share #15 Posted September 23, 2019 Thank God these imbeciles that make these are screwing up basic things for these patches. I mean there so good, but they botch a simply thing like the tongue or the eye. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortaydc60 Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share #16 Posted September 23, 2019 The problem for me is that I regard Bando’s site as pretty reliable. Thanks to Allan relating the story on the 101st. Was not aware there was problem with it but knew that the 86 and 87 were a problem. Now we can lump them together in the trash heap the 86,87 and 101st red tongue OD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertrat Posted September 23, 2019 Share #17 Posted September 23, 2019 sold for $17.24. Somebody got hosed...but at least not for hundreds of $$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warcollect1942 Posted September 23, 2019 Share #18 Posted September 23, 2019 A bad 88th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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