Condition: Near Mint
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Product Description: Near Mint example of a matching set of SS Totenkopf Vertical Collar Tabs in Bullion for an Untersturmführer which is a second lieutenant. These exquisite tabs are an original matched set and have not been on a uniform before. The badge cloth and shellacked buckram underlay are exactly as they should be, and the embroidery of the skull is perfect and is textbook on what you want to see on these. The rank tab for Untersturmführer has the correct SS-RZM pips. The cloth and buckram underlay are a match to the skull tab, and the prongs of the pips are untouched; bent once. Note the piping is perfectly stitched along the edge, matching right down to the locking stitches. It would be very difficult to find a better set that this. These Totenkopf Vertical Collar Tabs are in near mint 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 body guard 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 wide spread 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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