1st Gulf war Pair of Pre-1991 Iraqi Ba’ath Party Shoulder Boards

Pair of Pre-1991 Iraqi Ba’ath Party Shoulder Boards — Gold Wreath Insignia, Gulf War Bring-Back

Description:

A matching pair of cloth shoulder boards (slip-on rank slides) from Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party-era Iraqi armed forces, dating from before 1991 and brought back from the Gulf War. Each is olive-green cloth with a gold-embroidered double wreath device above a woven band in the red-white-black of the pre-1991 Iraqi flag. These relate to the feared Ba’ath Party political apparatus that underpinned Saddam Hussein’s regime. The pair was later mounted in a display album, which has left some glue residue and minor paper adhesion on the reverse of each board — shown clearly in the second photo. No other damage noted; embroidery and colours remain bright and intact.