Rag Clippings

Steve & Dave Johnson

Update On Some Previous Articles

One of the gratifying aspects of writing these articles for The Trading Post is that we get feedback from other members and we learn a good deal from that. In fact, our articles usually include an admission of some ignorance on our part and a request for help from other members who may know the answer or some part of it. Sometimes the feedback we receive is in the form of photos of patches we have left out of an article either inadvertently or because we did not have a good illustration of one that we did know about. Our articles are not about “our collection” so much as about interesting patches we have run across, whether in another’s collection, in a book, or on the Internet. Usually, we do not own all the patches used to illustrate our articles and rely on the assistance of others to complete the story. Having said that, we wanted to update some of our earlier articles with information provided by other collectors in response to our requests for further information.

In response to our article about borderless patches, i.e. variations that do not have the usual border on them (Trading Post OCT-DEC 2001), ASMIC member Chris Brown pointed out three additional patches that we had neglected to mention. Shown here are a 2nd Cavalry Division, a 78th Infantry Division and a 94th Infantry Division, all of which were manufactured without the standard olive drab border. Thanks, Chris.

This is only partial text and a limited number of graphics from the original article. The original article, which contains much more detailed information than here, and additional graphics, is contained in the January - March 2003  issue of The Trading Post.   

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