NSDAP Orts Level Anwärter Collar Tabs

Product Description: This pair of NSDAP Orts Level Anwärter Collar Tabs is a nice piece of regalia for a Nazi Party political leader. They are a perfectly matching, unissued pair, with no stitch holes or other traces of having been sewn to a uniform. Each tab measures 68 mm x 47 mm, and is made of a top quality, light brown crushed velvet fabric, with basket weave style piping in cornflower blue indicating Ortsgruppe level. Each tab has a metal eagle and swastika emblem, made of zinc, with intact original silver finish. These emblems indicate the rank of Politischer-Leiter-Anwärter, the second rank in the Orts level. The reverse of these NSDAP Orts Level Anwärter Collar Tabs show a textbook buckram stiffener, as well as the prongs of the eagle insignia, all of which are intact. There is no RZM tag. The buckram is marked with some hand-written dots and the numbers “121A” and “121B.” It is unclear if the writing was wartime or postwar done. This is a scarce and desirable set of NSDAP collar tabs, in near mint condition.

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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