TankBuster said:Ask and you shall receive. One of the rarest patches out there!
goneSilver Surfer said:anybody have a loose 8.5k to piss out? i mean invest. checkout item # 210972766037 on greedbay. look at all of the pix.
TankBuster said:I'll make it easy. Here is the link.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/310972766037?ss ... 1423.l2649
As for price, I think it's high. However, the attributed 23rd FG I used to own, I ended up selling for well over 10K. There was another on ebay about 4 years ago that fetched $11,500. They seem to be in a class all their own. My guess is someone will bite not far from where
it is right now.
a2jacketpatches said:TankBuster said:I'll make it easy. Here is the link.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/310972766037?ss ... 1423.l2649
As for price, I think it's high. However, the attributed 23rd FG I used to own, I ended up selling for well over 10K. There was another on ebay about 4 years ago that fetched $11,500. They seem to be in a class all their own. My guess is someone will bite not far from where
it is right now.
If the 23rd is worth that much and an actual 74th FS, why is it still available? Perhaps nobody realizes the significance of this patch. So rare that nobody knows what it is, even the seller calls it unknown. In my opinion, this changes a lot of recorded history concerning the alleged dual purpose (23rd FG & 74th FS) Shield, tiger, lightning insignia. I have always questioned that, and now it seems that maybe everyone else should as well.
I think someone has gotten the facts mixed up on the 23rd "Flying Tiger" "Group" emblem , I believe it is and always has been the "Group" design , most likely someone of the 23rd was with the 74th "Squadron" and just doesn't remember the rules of "shield" shape patch "Group" , Round shaped patch "Squadron" .........................a2jacketpatches said:TankBuster said:Ask and you shall receive. One of the rarest patches out there!
Any info come with these images? For this to be unofficial makes sense as to why it's so rare and a good reason for members of the squadron to wear the official Group patch in it's place. What doesn't make sense is for the Group patch to be the Squadron patch as well.
EMBLEMHUNTER said:I think someone has gotten the facts mixed up on the 23rd "Flying Tiger" "Group" emblem , I believe it is and always has been the "Group" design , most likely someone of the 23rd was with the 74th "Squadron" and just doesn't remember the rules of "shield" shape patch "Group" , Round shaped patch "Squadron" .........................a2jacketpatches said:TankBuster said:Ask and you shall receive. One of the rarest patches out there!
Any info come with these images? For this to be unofficial makes sense as to why it's so rare and a good reason for members of the squadron to wear the official Group patch in it's place. What doesn't make sense is for the Group patch to be the Squadron patch as well.
That or the 23rd "Group" emblem was dropped out of the Lineage" circulation and picked up later by the 74th as "Their" emblem .......