Waffen-SS Collar Tab set, uniform removed
Price: Sold
Description: Tunic removed enlisted matched pair; 1940-1942 pattern, un-piped, smooth, black gabardine wool construction collar tabs with machine embroidered SS runes side retaining its original B-series SS-RZM tag having silvery/gray high relief cotton thread runes mounted on a tan buckram backing along with matched enlisted rank side.All edges of both tabs show machined stitch-removal from a uniform collar and moderate wear.
Background: The dual sig-runes design was initiated by SS-Sturmhauptführer and graphic artist Walter Heck in May 1933, who sold his design to the SS for 2.50 Reichs Marks. Originally EM/NCO’s collar tabs for the ranks of SS-Schütze to SS-Hauptscharführer inclusively were piped in twisted white cord from their original inception, (Runic tabs, August 1929/Rank tabs, May 1933), until October 1934 when the piping for EM/NCO’s was modified to alternating twisted black and silver/aluminum cord piping. The final modification, in August 1940, eliminated all piping from EM/NCO’s collar tabs. Officer’s ranks collar tabs from SS-Untersturmführer to SS-Hauptsturmführer utilized alternating twisted black and silver/aluminum cord piping from their inception until October 1934 and silver/aluminum cord piping from October 1934 until the end of the war while the ranks of SS-Sturmbannführer to SS-Reichsführer utilized the silver/aluminum cord piping from August 1929 thru May 1945.
