Border Guard Airborne Patches Comparison

[Commissar]

Well I guess a fake of a real is a repro? eh?
Haha...I need patches, but now Im all paranoid.

[DougD]

Not Border Guard Airborne, but Border Guard Aviation Tech. Pretty rare I would think.

DougD

[pastfinder]

REALLY REALLY WANT!!!!!!

[DougD]

I don't really deal in postwar EM stuff, but it was so interesting I grabbed it...now its in Europe.

DougD

[pastfinder]

Alas alas...but thanks for the image :)

[russiamilitaria]

You an consider the contemporary as a fake made in Ukraine....

Yes, it's fake (or new-made) patch.
We can see that details of new-made Soviet patches (hammer, sickle, star etc.) are very accurate. This statement is true for all new-made patches. Shown picture is very representable and comparable!
PS - perhaps those bad men who produce fakes will change their technology to getting not so accurate details of patches. :thumbsdown

[russiamilitaria]

Hmm, I suppose thats correct, why they would fake them though is beyond me, I would have assumed there would be hundreds of thousands if not millions of patches from the old Soviet Union left in Ukraine.

Some types of patches are really "thousands if not millions". But there are a lot of very rare patches (like KGB, Border Guards, etc.). It's hard to find some or these patches (I mean REAL ones) even in Russia!

[russiamilitaria]

Not Border Guard Airborne, but Border Guard Aviation Tech. Pretty rare I would think.

DougD

Very good patch and whole tunic! :thumbsup

[russiamilitaria]

They have the knowledge, they have the tools, they have the materials, they have the time, they have the market (new collectors, eBay s*ckers, collectors who finally find the rare missing piece, re-enactors, movie... you name it) ... -> "RARE SOVIET BORDERGUARD PARA PATCH NO RESERVE".

Keep selling them at 9.95 USD each with production costs less than 20 cents each. Good money.

Yes, you are correct at 100% !!!

[pastfinder]

Yes, it's fake (or new-made) patch.
We can see that details of new-made Soviet patches (hammer, sickle, star etc.) are very accurate. This statement is true for all new-made patches. Shown picture is very representable and comparable!
PS - perhaps those bad men who produce fakes will change their technology to getting not so accurate details of patches. :thumbsdown

They have been trying. One of the keys is posting an image that is blurry to hide the detail. Another giveaway is the thread count, color of the patch (new patches are almost always darker), and blurring of the yellow shield border. Almost every new patch I've seen has a blurred border, and the ribs in the shield are tightly spaced. The OLDER Soviet patches have a wider spacing of the ribs.