SS Bevo Collar Tab

Product Description: This SS Bevo Collar Tab is an outstanding example of this extremely desirable, iconic piece of SS regalia. It was found in an unnamed veteran’s locker, inside a gas mask bag, with 13 other Bevo Runic tabs, a few other SS tabs, a few chevrons and a Kriegsmarine side cap. This tab remains just as it was when it was brought back. It’s typical machine woven construction, with the runic organizational emblem of the SS woven in silver-gray thread on a black woven background. It’s unissued and unworn, with no stitch holes or other indications of having been sewn to a uniform collar. There are no holes, stains, no damage of any kind. The reverse of this SS Bevo Collar Tab shows the folded edges of the woven fabric, as well as a white lattice internal stiffener material. This tab is crisp and perfect, with strong original color, and great eye appeal. It’s in exceptional, 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 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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