Is this Pre-WWII US or Theater-Made? Odd Cross-stitched Sergeant

[Garandomatic]

These came with a recent 4th Armored grouping that I picked up, and I have never seen anything like it. I searched on here, but found one post about rank from a similar era that someone referred to as "Golden Weave," but those did not appear to have the odd cross-stitch pattern in them that these do.

 

The man was in Hawaii around 1940-41, and in the Panama Canal area in 1936-37 before becoming an early member of the 4th Armored.

 

Anybody know?

[Garandomatic]

Detail

[hardstripe]

Generally, these were typical of Pre-war vendor made chevrons. Used from the 1930s into WWII. I have some CCC chevrons with identical embroidery that range from 1933-1942.

[Garandomatic]

Is there a term for it? I saw similar ones without the x stitch and figured they might be similar but nothing exactly like it.

[hardstripe]

There were a couple of different embroidery styles used in the 1930s.

 

The first is the "basket weave or cross stitched" you've shown above. Here is a sample of a First Sergeant in my collection:

 

The second is an early flat style embroidery. here is a Supply Sergeant:

 

A typical CCC Chevron of the 1930s-1942 follows:

 

[hardstripe]

Here is the CCC Chevron.