HUGE high-quality Hand-Carved UNIQUE 1-Off 22SAS PRESENTATION Plaque
Presented to the Warrant Officer's and Sergeants Mess 22 Special Air Service Regiment
By one Sergeant R. Holm M.M. November 1980 (That was the year of Operation NIMROD)
Pictured in image # 2 beside a "normal" size SAS presentation plaque
EXPERTLY Carved Special Air Service WINGED SWORD device and their famed motto "Who Dares Wins"
Carved in Germany in 1980 & signed by a soldier in BOAR ("British Army of the Rhine")
Can you IMAGINE a more awesome CENTERPIECE for any Special Air Service collection?
I purchased these plaques from a private collection when I was over buying stock in The UK a few months back
I do not have any additional history of this item and I have no knowledge who any of the three people named on the plaque were?
But it seems to me anyway to be somewhat "self provenancing"
SIZE = approx. 3 feet tall by 10" wide and 2.5" THICK
This plaque weighs OVER 10.00 KILOGRAMS, before it is safely packed, to survive the worst that Postman Pat can do
So the postage cost is HEFTY...sorry🙁
Use "Buy it Now"? and I will cover courier postage cost anywhere on the planet 🙂
If UK a buyer makes payment into my UK bank account? = NO VAT
The SMALLER (Regular size) S.A.S. plaque seen in image # 2 is shown for SCALE PURPOSES ONLY and is NOT included with this listing
British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)
There have been two formations named British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). Both were originally occupation forces in Germany, one after the First World War and the other after the Second World War. Both formations had areas of responsibility located around the German section of the River Rhine.
During the Cold War, the second formation was attached to NATO's Northern Army Group (NORTHAG) and tasked with defending the North German Plain, in the northern part of West Germany, from the armies of the Warsaw Pact. Its operational component that commanded the actual units of the BAOR was the 1st British Corps. The British Army of the Rhine and its subordinate 1st Corps made up a major part of the British Forces in Germany.