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- awarded a gorget were known as gorget captains Gorgets were also awarded to African chiefs. In colonial Australia, gorgets were given to Aboriginal people...
- S**** gorgets are a Native American art form of polished, carved s**** pendants worn around the neck. The gorgets are frequently engraved, and are sometimes...
- service. Gorget patches were originally gorgets, pieces of armour worn to protect the throat. When armour fell out of use, decorative cloth gorgets used the...
- many male hummingbirds, particularly those found in North America; these gorgets are typically iridescent. Other species, such as the purple-throated fruitcrow...
- skull, and baviere – if present, was fixed to the gorget, rendering the whole helmet immobile. Early gorgets were wide, copying the shape of the earlier aventail...
- 100 Objects. The Gleninsheen example is one of nine such surviving gold gorgets, one of the few that remain intact, and perhaps the most important. Like...
- Artillery and armour generals: black gorgets with red piping and deep red trouser stripes Air force: Blue gorgets Generals of communication troops, engineer...
- SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS Gorget patch until April 1942 (Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS) Gorget patches 1942–1945 (Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS)...
- 1942 SS rank insignia. Gorget patch/collar tab (Sturmabteilung) Gorget patch until April 1942 (Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS) Gorget patches 1942–1945 (Allgemeine...
- traditionally called Paroli (pl. Parolis) and are worn as gorget patch or collar tap, appliquéd to the gorget fore-part of the uniform coat, uniform jacket and/or...