SS Bevo Collar Tab

Product Description: This SS Bevo Collar Tab is a great display object, in pristine, perfect condition. This is the runic collar tab worn on the right side of the collar, by members of German Waffen-SS units. It’s Bevo, machine woven construction, with the runic emblem of the SS perfectly executed in silver-gray thread on a backing of ribbed black rayon. The front of the tab is nice and clean, with no damage or issues. The reverse of this SS Bevo collar tab shows the edges of the woven fabric folded around a backing of beige buckram (a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue). This is a nice and textbook example- for reference, see pages 107-108 of “Insignia and Artifacts of the Waffen-SS” by Mark A. Bando. These Bevo SS tabs are slowly starting to become impossible to find in minty condition. This one looks just as it did when it was made, and would be impossible to upgrade.

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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