Piped tunic to show

[Dave Jones]

Good day all

I just want to show off a few pictures of my piped tunic for a 2nd Leutnant of the Infantry. It's one of my favourite tunics from my collection as the quality of it is just stunning, sadly I have no history with it as the Officers name on the Hannover tailor label is illegible (to me anyhow). It is however clearly dated 17th June 1940. I guess the original owner was in the money as there appears to have been no expense spared in the tailoring of the tunic. I love the press studs on the lower flap to keep the front panel closed.

Please let me know what you think.

Best wishes

Dave

[Dave Jones]

Two more pictures.

[Dave Jones]

The two tailors labels.

[Dave Jones]

The bird.

[Johnny R]

If you can post a clear picture of the name tag we probably can read it and maybe tell you more about him.

[Dave Jones]

A couple of photos of the name tag as requested.

Regards

Dave

[Johnny R]

The last part is his rank when the tunic was made "Ltn". Cannot make out the name or first letter, it maybe a "T". Hannover had one of the larger Officer candidate schools and many tunics were made there for men while there were in the school.

[Dave Jones]

Thanks for the Hannover info Johnny. It's a shame that I've never been able to decipher the original owners name in this tunic, I have a few tailored tunics & this is the only one I can't read.

Regards

Dave

[afrikasandman]

Dave,

great looking tunic man, I have always liked these pipped walking out tunics. Matt

[Lukasz78]

very nice, and more rare than waffenrock

[Johnny R]

Member Naxos probably could read it. You may want to PM him. I think the first letter is an "S" or a "T". I have lists of all Heer officers from 1934-1945, both published and unpublished we can figure it out. With the rank and the date and the rank on the tunic I suspect he was severely wounded or killed or he was in a unit that went to Panzer Gren.

[Dave Jones]

Many thanks gents, it's great to show it off to an appreciative audience & thanks Johnny for the suggestion of Naxos. I'll PM him later.

Best wishes

Dave

[Oldtimerguns]

Hi gents,

Lovely tunic Dave, here's mine from the same tailor as yours.
It is a pre war walking out tunic for an "Oberzahlmeister"(paymaster)dated 1937.
Cannot read the owner's name too!!



Bird:


Collar tabs:




Shoulder board:





And commemorative tailor labels:

[Dave Jones]

Hi 'oldtimerguns'

Many thanks for showing us your tunic, which is also a great looking example. I Wonder if the illegible labels were written by the same person.

Best wishes

Dave

[Oldtimerguns]

Thanks Dave,

It's difficult to say, IMO there's little writing differences that's why I don't think so.

Regards,

Will.