ARMY AIR FORCES SASH OR?

[pwcosol]

Gents:

This forum appeared to be the most likely for posting the pictured fine white linen sash I found at a estate sale. Vet was 10 years USN, but seemed to have a interest in Aviation. In any event, it is 12.5 inches wide and about 5+ feet in length. About five inches from one end is the embroidered AAF "star in circle". Not sure it this is indeed a sash or possibly something funerary. but perhaps someone knows for sure...

 

 

[VMI88]

I think it's a souvenir aviator's scarf, not an unusual thing at all to find in groupings or pictured in old photos.

[Nack]

Yep - a scarf.  Sometimes the AAF insignia is in color and more-fully embroidered.

[warguy]

I have been wondering for a while of this style of scarf and the one with the colored roundel are original period pieces? Anyone care to offer an opinion? I see a lot of this style and the colored ones for sale. A lot of scarves seem to have been worn during the war based on photos, but these are the only styles that ever seem to come up for purchase. 

[pwcosol]

Thanks guys for your help. The estate sale I got it at has been kind of ongoing. This past weekend's and previous sale one month earlier were primarily cleaning out the garage.

Also ended up getting a large box of the Vet's ephemera/scrap books from when he was a kid in the late 1930s/1940s... some USN (and one AAF) books on instrument flying, a 1958-9 cruise book of the USS Lexington CVA-16, two cardboard boxes of the vet's USN issue clothing, sea/laundry bags, hats, tools medical kits & more. Lastly, in the ephemera box were his honorable discharge from the USN in 1966 and DD-214, which I will be returning to his wife in a day or so...

[Tolzer]

Were the scarfs 5' in length?