I wonder if anyone here could enlighten me? I have quite a number of old USAF/USN squadron patches in my collection, that I've acquired over the years, some of them dating back to the 1960's & early 70's. A few of them because of the weave pattern in their design, are referred to as "Schiffli" patches, which gives a rough indication of the era when they were made.
However, for a while I rather naively assumed that Schiffli were the manufacturer/supplier of these Sqn patches to the US Military. In actual fact Schiffli are (or were?) the Swiss company who designed, built and exported the looms, which were supplied to the US manufacturers. I would be interested to learn the names of these companies, I know that some were based in New Jersey and (I think) maybe in New York?
So I would be grateful if anyone could shed some light.
Cheers, ML
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Re: Schiffli Patches
That'll do for a start, cheers guys . In the 1990's I used to mail order from a US company called Aeroemblem, based outside Sheppard AFB (Texas) and run by a guy named Jerome Polder. But I think they were just dealers.
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