Uniform Removed Flatwire SS Collar Tab

Product Description: This uniform removed flatwire SS Collar Tab is an extremely desirable piece of SS regalia, with exceptional character. This collar tab was very obviously worn on a uniform collar, and still retains very evident remnants of the original factory machine stitching used to affix this, on both sides. It’s Bevo, machine woven construction, with the runic emblem of the SS perfectly executed in aluminum wire, on a backing of flack rayon. The obverse of this tab shows nice wear throughout, with some inset soiling and evidence of daily field use. On the back, this uniform removed flatwire SS Collar Tab still retains its original RZM paper tag. The tag is complete, with the SS emblem printed in black ink, and a “B” fee code indicating the correct rate for cotton and fabric items. Behind the RZM tag, a textbook buckram stiffener can be seen. This pattern of SS collar tab is very rare to find. This worn example has a really nice overall look, and is in excellent plus condition.

Historical Description: Regulations for the SS Collar Tab went through quite an evolution in just a short 16-year period. The first SS Collar Tabs were introduced in 1929 by Heinrich Himmler as part of the newly introduced SS uniform code. Initially, tabs were worn by both lower rank SS men and their senior leaders. Lower ranks would wear a rank tab as well as a numbered unit identification tab, with senior leaders wearing their rank tabs on both collars. In 1933 the well-known “SS” runic tab was adopted by Hitler’s personal bodyguard detachment, the “Leibstandarte” or “LAH”. The LAH used this runic tab in lieu of the numerical unit identification tab to identify them as members of the elite unit protecting the “Führer”. In 1934 the runic “SS” tabs were again adopted for use by the early “SS-VT” units. This adoption eventually led to the widespread use of SS runic tabs by German Divisions; the later non-German volunteer units would not be permitted to wear the runes, and bore their own unit designed patch instead. SS Collar tabs can be found in an extraordinary variety of numbers, designs, and pipings depending on unit and rank, from hand-embroidered tabs worn by officers to mass produced embroidered and machine woven types that were used on combat uniforms

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