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SS Officers Tab with Removed Numeral/Letter

Condition: Excellent

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Product Description: This SS Officers Tab is an extremely desirable, uniform removed piece, with a great “combat” look and character. It’s made of a typical black SS wool fabric, formed around a textbook buckram stiffener. The black fabric shows heavy wear, exposing the weave of the wool. The front of the tab is adorned with the iconic “SS” runic organizational emblem, hand-embroidered in bullion wire. The embroidery is tight, and was done perfectly; it shows wear, but no damage. This tab is a great early example. When it was manufactured, there was a letter or numeral on the tab to the right of the runes. New regulations around the start of the war called for these to be removed, so this one had this part of the insignia carefully removed, with some resulting damage to the black wool neatly repaired with hand stitching. This tab was obviously worn a lot in this configuration, obscuring traces that might have identified the letter or numeral originally applied. The outer border of the tab has textbook officer braid, made of twisted bullion wire cord. This was hand-sewn to the tab, and some of this thread has loosened, though the braid remains affixed. The reverse of this tab bears a partial RZM paper label, which retains the SS emblem. This is a unique, field worn SS Officers Tab, of a variant that is extremely hard to find. It 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 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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