£12,000
WW2 Rare Historically Significant Third Reich SS Totenkopfverbande privately custom tailored summer weight service tunic. Lightweight cotton material tailored in the style of a 1936 pattern tunic. Badge cloth faced collar with Totenkopf collar tab and rank tab for SS-Hauptscharführer. Shoulder straps piped in KZ Brown waffenfarbe. One rank pip missing for one strap. Sleeve eagle hand sewn with mothed wing tip. Tunic is very small size approx. 30 inch chest. No name or any markings. Sleeves are fully lined and the shoulders are padded. Part Rayon lining to shoulders. Underside of pocket flaps lined. Never had a cuff title. Provenance: This item was obtain by a British Veteran of the 63rd Anti Tank Regiment Royal Artillery when his unit entered Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in April 1945. Scanned photo shows the British Veteran wearing the tunic back home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 1945. New to the market.
Tunic shows service wear throughout. Some stains and fading from use. Sleeve eagle wing tip has been mothed and some ink applied to try and hide this done by the Veteran or his family. Some moth to the collar tab and collar.
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