SS Collar Tab – BeVo

Product Description: A well-preserved and highly collectible SS Bevo Collar Tab, showcasing the distinctive machine-woven Bevo construction that has become one of the most iconic insignia styles of the Third Reich. The silver-gray SS runes are crisply woven onto a black rayon backing, with sharp detail and strong contrast, hallmarks of genuine wartime production.

This example remains unissued and unworn, showing no stitch holes, fraying, or signs of prior use. The reverse retains its original neatly folded edges and the expected white lattice stiffener, consistent with authentic period manufacture. The tab is crisp, with vibrant color and no stains, tears, or moth damage.

A clean, textbook example of the SS Bevo Collar Tab, this piece would make a strong addition to any advanced collection of WWII German insignia or SS regalia.

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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