WAF SA collar tab collectors ?

[Hochland IV]

Here are the results of my SA tabs search. I thought SA tabs would be relatively easy to find, but I was wrong. They have proved to be much harder to find than I anticipated.

What I still need to find in addition to Cavalry and Pionier examples, are:

Steel Green: Nordsee
Light Blue: Highland, Bayer. Ostmark
Yellow: Schlesien, Franken
Pink: Ostmark, Kurpfalz


So this is what I have found so far (with difficulty)

In the center is an NSDAP flag patch (Einheitfahnestück) 20cm wide by 16cm tall, brown wool with 'NSDAP Ortsgruppe Raisdorf Kreis Plön' machine stitched in white. Not SA I know, but I couldn't help but grab it as it is so interesting. The tabs are:

Dark Blue: SA SA-Gruppe Westmark Reserve-Sturm 2, Standarte 224, Standort Niederwalluf

Wine red: SA Gruppe Ostland/Westfalen Sturm 18, Standarte 37

Sulpher-Yellow: SA Gruppe Sudewest/Mitte Sturm 6, Standarte 75

Green: SA-Gruppe Sachsen Reserve-Sturm 3 Standarte 133, Standort Zwickau

Dark Brown: SA-Gruppe Niedersachsen Signals Reserve-Standarte 68

Apple Green: SA-Gruppe Thüringen Reserve-Sturm 11 Standarte 153

Black: SA-Gruppe Niederrhein Stab (staff) des Sturmbann II der SA-Standarte 16, Standort Köln

Hi Tony.. could you post pics of the reverse sides of these tabs? Always interested in construction techniques! It varies so much..

[squidney86]

As stated earlier, I had some new tabs arrive and wanted to show them off. First is this nice, SA-Motor tab from Gruppe Hessen. I hope you all enjoy them as much as I do. Oh, and if you have any SA-Sanitäts insignia, photos, etc. I am ALWAYS looking!

Sydney

[squidney86]

Next, is a rare tab. I lucked out earlier this year in snagging a Verwaltungsfuhrer board and now I have this beautiful tab to go with it.

[squidney86]

And lastly, this beautiful SA-Sanitäts tab from Jager Standarte 11 of Marburg, Gruppe Hessen. I have many examples of the early SA med insignia but never one like this.

[ivbaust]

Very nice tabs Thanks for showing

[Hochland IV]

Some great examples there! Thanks for showing them..

[ivbaust]

Here‘s an example, why many tabs haven’t survived until today

This NSKK grouping was found during a house demolition. You can see more pictures in this thread: https://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/for...use-demolition

[ivbaust]

The grouping also included a NSKK brownshirt

[ivbaust]

I know the owner of this grouping, who has received it directly from the workers of the demolition company a few weeks ago. Now check this out.

When the shirt was found, one worker has sent this photo of the brownshirt to my buddy. It shows the shirt how it was found hidden under the deal boards of a floor in one of the mansion’s rooms.

[ivbaust]

Note the collar tabs, the sleeve eagle and the tie

[ivbaust]

When my buddy met with the worker, he presented him the shirt. Unfortunately the worker laundered the shirt. He said it was so dirty. The worker thought he would get a better price for the shirt when it’s nice and clean

[ivbaust]

During laundry of course the collar tabs have been damaged
I’ve attached a before/after comparison

[ivbaust]

Same happened to the sleeve eagle

[ivbaust]

And the tie was torn and damaged, too

[ivbaust]

Well, the worker of the demolition company didn’t know what will happen to the tabs. He thought he would do a good thing. Well, this is a typical example IMO, why many tabs (or even in general cloth items) didn’t survive until today. Too bad