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Product Description: A very nice set of SS Gruppenfuhrer Collar Tabs. Three large silver bullion hand embroidered oak leaves, over a black velvet base. These SS Gruppenfuhrer Collar Tabs show minimal wear to the bullion as well as the base fabric. The edges are trimmed with a double twist aluminum piping, which remains originally hand stitched to each of the tabs. Each tab is constructed over a fine buckram backing. Most of the SS RZM paper label is still present on the left tab. This set was recently acquired from an old collection, with a hand written note describing the tabs as being originally purchased from a US veteran in the 1960’s. A rare and desirable set of matching SS Gruppenfuhrer Collar Tabs.
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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