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Harry,
I have to say I like it. I would like it a lot more if embroidered on olive drill as this backing tan material looks like Luftwaffe or KM.
But I like the construction, and the detail, and the deterioration of the wire.
We can't know everything about what was custom made for officers in tropical areas as there was a lot of personal latitude in regulations. But there are too few surviving originals out there. How many times have we seen monkeyed with early tropical tunics on estand and dealers sites lately? Any untouched originals?
Photos of something like this in use will exist, (statistically they MUST). The hard part is that, if we are talking N.Africa, for example, maybe a TOTAL of 180,000 men passed through the AFRIKAKORPS, including those captured in Tunisia. (I won't get into Southern France, USSR's or Italy's numbers!)
Break that down to surviving officer's tunics in POW camps, then those that made it after 4 years of basically continual wear to get back to Germany while not being destroyed on return as authorized...
I squeel when I think of the stockpiles of tunics burned in huge piles in 1943 in N.Africa...
Regards!
Mark.Last edited by NZMark; 12-27-2007, 02:14 PM.
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Originally posted by DAKcollector1 View PostHi fellas,
Eagle looks absolutely genuine. I've seen very few with the tropical cloth backing - all were on privately tailored officer's pattern tropical/DAK tunics.
Happy a Moderator posted on it.
Nice find!
Christopher
Mark.Last edited by NZMark; 12-27-2007, 10:11 PM.
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Tropical officer eagle
Wow, a stalker. Please stop stalking me on this site.
Thank you,
Christopher StoneLast edited by MilitaryCollect; 12-27-2007, 10:42 PM.
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