Post your favorite Heer shoulder strap/board and/or collar tabs

[galizien41]

Same with me, the other one was a feldbluse strap that was on ebay years ago. Strange to have a feldbluse strap made in 43, or maybe it was just embroidered on that strap on a later date. Don't remember if the stitching went all the way through. I think there is a picture of it somewhere on waf.

Very rare shoulder strap! I see such shoulder strap only the second time.

[vizenz]

Recently obtained from a friend and fellow collector. Mortar Bn (Granatwerfer Bataillone) created 15 March 1943. I also have an enlisted embroidered example.

Great find! It's also for me only the second GW metal device I ever saw!
Would be great to find one for my collection...

Best regards,
Andreas

[TJ Suter]

I'm the one who bought the strap you're talking about. The embroidery on the strap doesn't go all of the way through. If you have my book I have a picture of it and a period photo of a similar strap in wear. My guess is that the strap was produced by a company tailor and a feldbluse strap was easier for him to produce.

[vizenz]

I'm the one who bought the strap you're talking about. The embroidery on the strap doesn't go all of the way through. If you have my book I have a picture of it and a period photo of a similar strap in wear. My guess is that the strap was produced by a company tailor and a feldbluse strap was easier for him to produce.

I know 5 or 6 embroidered "GW 5" straps in German collections. They are all made of felt with the same tongue material aso. That's not a sign for a Company tailor especially because he would have problems to do the chainstitching with his official supplied Singer sewing-machine.
Locally manufactured for sure, but definitely in a bigger order (Company size? )from a tailor. That makes me believe they could be straps from the permanent staff of "schwere Granatwerfer Ersatz und Ausbildungs- Bataillon 5" instead of "Granatwerfer Bataillon 5", but that's only my thoughts without any evidence - till now

Best regards,
Andreas

[TJ Suter]

I know 5 or 6 embroidered "GW 5" straps in German collections. They are all made of felt with the same tongue material aso. That's not a sign for a Company tailor especially because he would have problems to do the chainstitching with his official supplied Singer sewing-machine.
Locally manufactured for sure, but definitely in a bigger order (Company size? )from a tailor. That makes me believe they could be straps from the permanent staff of "schwere Granatwerfer Ersatz und Ausbildungs- Bataillon 5" instead of "Granatwerfer Bataillon 5", but that's only my thoughts without any evidence - till now

Best regards,
Andreas

That's as good a theory as any. My thoughts were a company tailor because of the deformed 'G' in the embroidery and the easier to produce feldbluse style.

[vizenz]

That's as good a theory as any. My thoughts were a company tailor because of the deformed 'G' in the embroidery and the easier to produce feldbluse style.

A Company tailor was a craftsman/skilled tailor, so he should be able to sew a piping to a strap. Imo These straps are pointed because of a personel preference. But as told before, it's very unusual to have the possibility for doing machine-embroidered chainstitching or doing machine-embroidered buttonholes for a company tailor.
..but as you sayed, that's all theory.

Best regards,
Andreas

[TJ Suter]

Here is the strap vizenz and I have been discussing....along with a photo of it in wear (courtesy of Carsten Fries).

[OSS]

I am curious how a unit created in 1943 would have a Feldbluse type strap.

[longislandercjv]

We all are!

[Schulterklappen]

Auflagen

Here is an example of what you sometimes encounter with cyphers and numbers for WWII era shoulder straps and board. These boards are for a Hauptmann der Reserve
of Armee Nachrichten Regiment 549 (6. Armee). The pips and numbers 5 & 4 have held up well over time. The two #9s are defective and the "Zink Pest " has done them in. I have gotten a couple of replacement numbers to restore the boards.

[John4022]

Some very nice boards being shown! Heres my Feldherrnhalle pioneer strap thats one of my favorites.

[mapjew]

Nothing special here, but the units make them special to me, especially the 156th rgt.

[Schulterklappen]

Windhund

Nothing special here, but the units make them special to me, especially the 156th rgt.

Nice straps. Panzergrenadier piped straps, from the 116. Panzer, are hard to find!

[mapjew]

Nice straps. Panzergrenadier piped straps, from the 116. Panzer, are hard to find!

Thanks! I know, trust me.. A part of my collection is focused on the division due to that shoulder board.

The 355th infantry regiment was involved in Operation Freshman, which was a failed attempt by British SOE commandos attempting to sabotage a heavy water production plant in Norway.

[brooksbz]

Here is a IR 156 slide (mot.).