Uniform Removed SS Bullion Collar Tab

Product Description: This uniform removed SS Bullion Collar Tab is a unique piece with fantastic character. SS collar tabs like this that were actually worn on a uniform are rare to find. This one has a very desirable, combat worn appearance. It’s a tab for an officer or senior NCO, and has hand embroidered runes in bullion wire. The embroidery of the runes is nice and tight, and typical of originals. The body of the tab is made of a standard SS black wool badge cloth fabric, which shows heavy wear, the the nap worn away and the weave visible across most of the surface. The edges of this collar tab retain remnants of black thread that was once use to affix this to a uniform collar, with hand stitching. On the reverse, the badge cloth was protected and shows full nap. The edges of the fabric have been joined with neat hand stitches, and a cardboard stiffener is visible. A small tear in the stiffener gives a glimpse of the hand embroidery behind the runes. This high quality uniform removed SS Bullion Collar Tab is a really evocative piece of SS regalia, almost certainly worn in field conditions. The condition is excellent.

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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