Bullion Patches. Are these Oddities?

[Steven Chapp]

In my Grandfather's WWII paraphernalia that I inherited were his Major Oak leaf "patches" that were tailor made from what I can ascertain from my research. These appear to have be possibly cut from the original clothing. I make this assumption due to the lack of stitching at the edge of the leaf.

He retired from the Army Reserves, a Lt. Colonel  in the mid 50s. 

Is there anyone that can shed light on these Major Oak Leaves?

Thank! 

Steven

[patches]

There are threads still there to show these were once sewn on, sewn on on shoulder loops of a field jacket lets say, with these custom made bullion ranks they are normally folded under to form a square, this prevents the edge from fraying, or just cut to form a square before being sewn, which will cause fraying unless the whole edge is oversewn when sewn them on a uniform. Here he apparently just had these trimmed to an circle/oval of sorts and had sewn on, which as you see caused severe fraying.

[greendevilsix]

There is nothing odd about them.  They are good bullion Major rank insignia.