SS Officer Der Führer Collar Tab

Product Description: This hard-to-find SS Officer Der Führer Collar Tab is absolutely gorgeous and so difficult to find. This textbook collar tab are for an officer and do not appear to ever have been worn. The body of the tab is made of a fine black wool badge cloth that shows no mothing or other damage. The top quality early runic tab is wonderfully executed in hand embroidered aluminum wire bullion. The embroidery is precise, and the wire does have oxidation from moister. The rank tab is edged with a silver twisted cord piping. On the reverse, these Der Führer collar tabs have a light tan buckram stiffener. There is no RZM tag. This top quality early collar tab display exceptionally well. This SS Officer Der Führer Collar Tab is 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 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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