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good one.

Never seen a BEVO runes with this type buckram backing-usually wide mesh white gauze or plain cardboard. The 'possibility' exists that an original lost it's backing due to machine-washing or some other misadventure and was re-glued around an improper backing?
The cloth part appears to be 100% original.

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Originally posted by M. Bando:
Never seen a BEVO runes with this type buckram backing-usually wide mesh white gauze or plain cardboard. The 'possibility' exists that an original lost it's backing due to machine-washing or some other misadventure and was re-glued around an improper backing?
The cloth part appears to be 100% original.

That type of backing is correct but not as common on EM tabs as the card or 2 types of white mesh normally found

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Originally posted by M. Bando:
Never seen a BEVO runes with this type buckram backing-usually wide mesh white gauze or plain cardboard. The 'possibility' exists that an original lost it's backing due to machine-washing or some other misadventure and was re-glued around an improper backing?
The cloth part appears to be 100% original.

Concur, typically seen with the white cheesecloth backing, but when these were made, no one was keeping score like we are now.

It's original. 3 types exist: white mesh, cardboard and buckram backing;

Kind regards,
Gerd V

For about 25 years after I first saw a bevo runic tab, all I saw were examples with the wide mesh white gauze backing. Then in the mid-
90s, I acquired one from a 2nd Armored vet, having plain cardboard on the reverse. I have since seen several others with cardboard but have yet to see one with buckram on the reverse.
The day I see one of those in the effects of a WW2 veteran, I'll believe they existed during WW2. I wouldn't have believed the cardboard version after so many years of never seeing one, unless the vet provenance element was a factor.
However, I always remain open to possibilities.

Hello Josias,

I like this one !

Sebastian.

As I said above not as common as the white mesh or cardboard type on enlisted tabs but the norm on officers tabs, here are a few photos 1st belongs to NH from sweden

here is a nco's/officers woven tab

more officers tabs

backs of 3 EM types

another

the front

another type of white mesh

front shot

All three types are well documented.

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Originally posted by Woody:
front shot

Nice bevo style rank tab Woody, hard to find.