$1,985.00
Condition: Excellent
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Product Description: A rare matching pair of SS Allgemeine Fuss-Standarte 87th Collar Tabs Innsbruck (Austria), embroidered in white thread on black wool backing, with black and aluminum twisted cord pipping. The right collar tab depicts an embroidered edelweiss rather than the usual numeric formation number that denotes the location. The reverse of the right collar tab includes the SS RZM tag. The left collar tabs depicts a single silver pip denoting the rank of Unterscharführer (Corporal), and the reverse of the tab complete with tan brown buckram stiffener. it does have a couple of moth nips on the back. The is a textbook early example of an SS Allgemeine Fuss-Standarte 87th Collar Tabs in excellent 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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