He came back from Germany in 1945, and all that he brought back with him, went into storage where it has stayed until today?
Maybe you believe that, i certainly do not! It does sound nice though.
I cant comment about your armbinde, but i can say, a story, no matter what kind, has nothing to do with the item. It cannot even be considered into any authentication of this item. I am tempted to go back and edit your posts and erase the Grandfather bit. We dont know you, we dont know your Grandfather, and we dont know what your motives are. (Sounds bad, but is not) You were not around in 1945 when your Grandfather brough his items back, so you have no idea if this armbinde was bought back in 1945, traded in 1955, or purchased from an online catlog in 1965. That is the truth, so no matter what your Grandfather told you, it has no bearing on this item. We need to judge the item, and ONLY the item. Vet bring back stories are for the most part, invented - & plain lies that accompany a strange piece
that needs explaining.
Dont take personal offense now, i am not having a go at you, i am just saying why this whole Granddad thing needs to be forgotten about, and ONLY the item judged, s
ans any fable.
Now what i said above about "needs explaining" is often the case with fantasy or fake items, and usually the explaining is done in the same fashion as you are here, by roping in Uncle Joe or Granddad Felix into the "Solid proof" provenance - effectively judging Uncle Joes word, and ignoring the item, or using what Uncle Joe says to explain the unexplainable.
Does your item need explaining?
it certainly does, because there is just no way that an HJ tag should be on this armbinde. I said i cant comment about the authenticity, and i wont, except to say that i, would not buy this piece, even with a signed letter from your Granddad!
As i said, nothing personal. I could fill a
book with Uncle Joe stories, i have had these "Vets" talk Bullshit
to my face at shows before, i have seen these "vets" getting up to all kinds of no-good. And by now, we have hundreds, if not thousands of forum threads where vet tales have been exposed as lies! So, we need to judge the item in question, and leave off any toppings.
Normally i would not take the time to reply to a thread like this, but i am at work, and bored, so there you go. No spell check on this pc either, so excusé the grammar