I am placing this here..heer...as it seems logical enough. Picked this up some 20 odd years ago. It appears to be what would be called in England, a sealed pattern, a proof piece offered up for approval prior to production...or to manufacturers, to check their work by. It is dated 15 May 1933, (just shy of two months before the NSDAP became the only political party in Germany) and issued by the Army Garment Board (bureau?...terminology may be off here..).
It is a sample for the patch to be sewn onto Army Sport Trunks...shorts...a predecessor of the Whermacht Sports Emblem worn on sport shirts. It has been cloistered away with other obscure insignia, and now I have found a place to show it. The base cloth is a loose woven white poplin, with black and white threads in a tightly worked design, consistent with German insignia manufacturing methods. The wax seal on the reverse of the tag bears the Weimar Eagle, surmounted by "HEERESBEKLEIDUNGSAMT MUNCHEN". Has anyone ever seen anything similar, or was it put into use? Perhaps it was in progress, but shelved by the change into the Whermacht styles and requirements?
It is a sample for the patch to be sewn onto Army Sport Trunks...shorts...a predecessor of the Whermacht Sports Emblem worn on sport shirts. It has been cloistered away with other obscure insignia, and now I have found a place to show it. The base cloth is a loose woven white poplin, with black and white threads in a tightly worked design, consistent with German insignia manufacturing methods. The wax seal on the reverse of the tag bears the Weimar Eagle, surmounted by "HEERESBEKLEIDUNGSAMT MUNCHEN". Has anyone ever seen anything similar, or was it put into use? Perhaps it was in progress, but shelved by the change into the Whermacht styles and requirements?
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