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Product Description: This nice and uncommon set of SS Brigadefuhrer Collar Tabs is a textbook original. The very nice silver bullion embroidered triple oakleaves are beautifully done showing expected precision and skill. The embroidery shows only minimal wear and remains complete and intact. The bullion embroidery has been worked on a nice black velvet base which also shows only minimal wear. The edges of both tabs are adorned with typical twisted silver bullion piping, which is originally hand sewn with typical black thread. The reverse of this wonderful matched set of collar tabs shows expected details, with a tan buckram backing and hand stitches retaining the folded edges of the velvet fabric. One tab shows some traces of adhesive residue which may be where an RZM tag was affixed in the past. It does not appear that these were ever worn. These SS Brigadefuhrer Collar Tabs are a great pair of insignia for a high-ranking SS officer. They would be hard to upgrade and remain 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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