Tunic for Officer with Don Cossack

[Johnny R]

Name

Jim, can you make out the name and date? ObLT and 1940?

[djpool]

Jim, can you make out the name and date? ObLT and 1940?

Hey John,

I'm pretty sure that the first part is Oblt as you mentioned and the date is 1940. That would seem to track. 1st Lt in 1940 and Captain by 43/44. I had a friend try to decipher the rest.He sent it out and so far I've got:

Obltn" heissen.
"Obfw" "Natter

Also a member sent me some info on the origins of the tunic.Who brought it back to the U.S. and when. I sent him a PM asking his permission to post the info.WR Jim

[nakta]

Jim,
Great looking tunic. My tunic with the Kuban regiment shield will match nicely with yours.

Rhie

[Hasse.M]

Its hard to see from the photos but could the small holes on the backside of the collar be from moths?

[Klaus O.]

Hi djpool!

It looks very much like a Uniform I used to have and that I sold several years ago in the USA. The only problem it didn't come with the Don Cossack troops' shield. Strange... furthermore my tunic was also a Rittmeister (Hauptmann/Captain) but of the reserve (double piping yellow/gold on grey).

I will post some pictures of my sold tunic, when I will be at home.


Ciao,

Claudio

[Klaus O.]

It's also strange that they removed the taylor's label on your tunic... I remember that my tunic had it! The collar patches are similar and also the breast eagle is the same one (deluxe NCO-Waffenrock type of eagle on light grey backing!).

Ciao,

Claudio

[Mooyman]

Hi,

I have one Infantry Captain tunic with the taylor's label in the same position that this disarranging.

In this case, maybe the taylor's label disarranged totally.

VERY NICE tunic!!!

Best regards,

Ricardo.

[djpool]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the comments.Maybe I can answer some of the questions or pose new ones.

Averbeck and Broskamp was a well known tailor. There is an example of a Generals Waffenrock in the Curley book.It also doesn't have the name tag. Of course there is no close up of the area where one might have been.Of course I've seen many a tailored tunic in my day with the tag removed.

I would love to see pictures of other tunics made by this firm especially under the collar.

The small holes could be moth holes but generally linen/ cotton isn't affected.There is light mothing on other parts of the tunic but those areas are wool.


Claudio-I look forward to seeing pictures of your tunic. I'm fairly confident we're not talking the same tunic just because of the tailor label and difference in boards.

WR Jim

[Klaus O.]

Hi djpool,

Now that I checked my pictures I don't think that is the same tunic, but it was pretty close...

I sold mine 7-8 years ago for about USD 500.-.

Ciao,

Claudio

[Klaus O.]

shoulder board....

[Klaus O.]

collar

[Johnny R]

Tunic

Those colors on the reserve boards are reversed. That is odd.

[djpool]

Also a member sent me some info on the origins of the tunic.Who brought it back to the U.S. and when. I sent him a PM asking his permission to post the info.WR Jim

This tunic was originally brought to the states by George Petersen in the 1970s. That doesn't make the patch original to the tunic, but its nice to have some of the history.WR Jim

[nakta]

This tunic was originally brought to the states by George Petersen in the 1970s. That doesn't make the patch original to the tunic, but its nice to have some of the history.WR Jim

Interesting. I think that I saw another tunic(ex-George Patersen collection, in the Angolia book), on which the unit patch(Aserbadschan, I remember) was applied by similar method(zig-zag machine stitch).

[djpool]

Interesting. I think that I saw another tunic(ex-George Patersen collection, in the Angolia book), on which the unit patch(Aserbadschan, I remember) was applied by similar method(zig-zag machine stitch).

Of course George was one of the early pioneers on foreign Volunteer items.He truly had some amazing pieces.As I understand it most or all of it has been sold off now.WR Jim