NSDAP Orts Level Abschnittsleiter Collar Tabs

Product Description: These NSDAP Orts Level Abschnittsleiter Collar Tabs are a scarce, near mint and very fine quality manufactured pair. These are post 1939 pattern Nazi Party political leader tabs. Each of these tabs measures 68 mm x 47 mm, and is made of a fine and beautiful brown crushed velvet fabric, with textbook basket weave piping indicating Orts level, and a standard lattice core. Each tab has two gilded aluminum insignia, with a right facing German eagle and swastika emblem, and a single oak leaf with two acorns. All of the prongs for the metal insignia are intact, and virtually all of the original gold finish is still present as well, with nice original luster. The metal oak leaves indicate the rank of  Abschnittsleiter, the second-highest rank at the Orts level. On the reverse, these NSDAP Orts Level Abschnittsleiter collar tabs show the prongs from the metal pins. One of the tabs has a paper RZM tag, with a correct “B” tax code, the RZM logo, and maker code “A4/28” indicating manufacture by the firm of Paulmann & Crone in Lüdenscheid. The tag also has the serial number “381564.” There is some writing on the reverse of each tab, with some dots and initials and the numbers “19A” and “19/B.” It is not clear if the writing is wartime or postwar applied. These tabs are an unissued set, with no traces of ever having been affixed to a uniform collar. They show no wear, and only extremely slight age. The condition rates as near mint.

Historical Description: Collar insignia, in the form of collar tabs (Kragenspiegel) or simple woven Litzen, were very widely used by many German civil, political, military and paramilitary organizations, before and during WWII. In some cases, for example on collar tabs of the Luftwaffe, the collar insignia were rank specific, with devices or rank Tresse that changed as a soldier was promoted. In other cases, such as the pre-1938 Litzen used on enlisted field tunics of the German Army, the collar insignia had no rank identifier, but bore “Waffenfarbe” branch colors that identified a soldier’s unit type. Some German collar insignia were adorned with unit or branch specific metal emblems, while others featured hand or machine embroidery, and still others were made using hand applied wire bullion. Less commonly, collar insignia emblems could be directly applied to the collar itself, rather than being a removable patch. Collar insignia intended for field use was often different from the formal dress insignia used by the same organization. It is no exaggeration to say that many hundreds of different collar patterns were in use during the Third Reich, with some organizations having multiple patterns as regulations changed during the 1933-45 period. Some collar insignia, which was mass produced for large organizations, remains relatively common today, while other insignia types such as those for officers of the highest ranks, or for small organizations, are very scarce.

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