Panzer NCO Straps Set

Product Description: This Panzer NCO Straps Set is a near mint, matching pair of shoulder boards. They are a textbook early pair, of the pattern made for issue between 1938 and 1940 (and used through 1945). The top of the boards are made of a typical, finely woven dark green wool badge cloth. The branch piping is the wool material one expects to see on straps of this vintage, in a desirable pink (Panzer) color. The top of each board is adorned with machine applied rayon NCO rank Tresse, as well as two pips, indicating the rank of Oberfeldwebel (a senior NCO rank). The pips are perfect, originally applied, still held in place with all of the original prongs. The underside of each board is made of a stone gray material that is almost certainly left over from construction of pre-1940 Army issue trousers, an interesting detail. These were probably originally made as slip-on type board, but have been converted to sew-in type by removal of the tongues. This nice early Panzer NCO Straps Set displays extremely well.

Historical Description: The German military as well as civil, political and paramilitary organizations traditionally used shoulder straps and shoulder boards as uniform insignia, to denote the rank or function of the wearer. After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, there was a tremendous increase in the number of groups and organizations in Germany wearing officially sanctioned uniforms, and most of these organizations used shoulder straps and shoulder boards as a component of their regalia. The exact color of piping utilized, the material color, the type of braid or Tresse that was used, and the number or location of devices and pips present, allow shoulder boards to be tracked to the exact organization that issued them, and often yield even further detail such as the wearer’s rank and even his specific military unit. Normally worn in pairs, the boards were in some cases plain, and in other cases adorned with detailed embroidery or metal emblems. Some shoulder boards were made in the millions, others were specific to a single individual.

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