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    Here is a tunic you don't see too often

    Here is an odd one
    Last edited by dhunter93; 01-25-2010, 09:55 PM.

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              Forgot to mention it's very well made and all of the buttons are Assmann marked!

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                So the buttons are not hollow? if they're Assman marked... spelled out? with mm indication?
                or the Assman logo only?
                Such fatigue tunics would have simple hollow (combat) buttons usually... these would be considered dress tunic buttons...

                Also the shoulder straps are not in sink with Wehrmacht... so some irregularities...but
                it could be OK still....but definately not a standard WH tunic...
                Is it oat meal in color? Looks more faded green and cotton, not HBT.

                Here's a period picture of an NCO with a pocketless fatigue tunic modified for summer wear...(added collar and shoulder insignia + breast eagle).
                So it was done, and adding as green collar I've seen before also...(a GJ trooper)

                Perhaps a foreign conversion with added M36 collar for summer wear is a possibility!
                Any stamps to show?
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                Last edited by NickG; 01-26-2010, 12:08 AM.

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                  Here you go Nick, the buttons are solid with extra and assmann logo..Also it is dead under a blacklight- the thread, material and collar insignia..



                  Last edited by dhunter93; 01-26-2010, 12:26 AM.

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                    Reminds me my Austrian Heer reissue drillich tunic. There are some differences, but the cloth, resewn buttons, added collar and general cut reminds me that.

                    But now I just see 'Belgrad' on the stamp, so must be Serbian!



                    Last edited by Christian_GJR3; 01-26-2010, 12:51 AM. Reason: 1

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                      I just noticed that it does not have a tunnel in the back panel for a drawstring and the fact that its cotton (as opposed to HBT) it did not start life as a regular German Wehrmacht fatigue tunic...unless its in early "moleskin", a tough wearing drill fabric material used by the Reichswehr in the 1930's.

                      HOWEVER that stamp is interesting as it reads "Belgrad" which is the German spelling for Belgrade (at the time Serbia was a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia which was occupied by the Germans...).
                      In Yugoslavien it would have been stamped in Cyrilic spelling ...........
                      (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet) like "Бeoгpaд" / Beograd...
                      Clearly not their alphabet... so a German language German Depot stamp of some sort? or tailor stamp in German language? Perhaps a former Yugoslav army piece converted for Heer use?
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                      Last edited by NickG; 01-26-2010, 12:57 AM.

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