Is this Heer Officer's Tab Real or Fake?

[jhazuga]

Hello,

I picked this up this weekend at a flea market in a lot of original shoulder boards, photographs, and other items. The guy claimed that it all came from the estate of a Vet that had to go into a nursing home. I can tell that the rest of the items are authentic, but I don't know enough about collar tabs to know if it's real or not. It is bullion thread on green felt with a black rope boarder around the tab. It has a couple of moth holes, but they are hardly noticible. If anyone can lend any help to it's authenticity, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Johnny R]

IMO it is a nice original example of a tab for a piped service tunic or waffenrock for a HV Official. Black as the secondary color was used by several HV specialties including weapons but most often engineering and motor technology etc. This is a good example of how for HV dress tabs (like tabs for assault and panzer wraps), piping was added by hand to "finish" the insignia out like this.

[jhazuga]

Thanks for the info Johnny! Are these at all valuable? I know most collar tabs don't seem to fetch too much.

Thanks again!

[Laurence Strong]

Thanks for the info Johnny! Are these at all valuable? I know most collar tabs don't seem to fetch too much.

Thanks again!

No