Very fine example with great character. Congrats on an excellent addition.
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Thanks Glenn, good to know!
Appreciate the comment John.
I'll add a few pictures of my own now, on a Webster torso mannequin.
The award loops are for two breast badges, and a ribbon bar. At first I thought they might be for a Close Combat clasp, sadly not! I tried but the pin at the rear of a Close Combat clasp is far too wide. The ribbon bar is slightly higher than I expected, but I've seen plenty of wartime pictures with the ribbon bar placed like this.
The ribbon bar is for an 'Old Boy' (i.e at least 24 years old!) who saw the 'Flower Wars', and avoided the first (if not the subsequent) Russian winter of 1941/ 42.
It's the 4 Year Loyal service medal, then the Austrian Anschluss medal, and then the Czech medal with Prague Bar.
The General Assault badge was a no-brainer for a Pioneer (!), and the EK1 is a Friedrich Orth (marked "15" on the pin) that I already had. The GAB is from Mario Hiscoll, my first Cupal (aluminium with a copper surface) and I love it! It's the 'unknown maker' #7 type believed to be a Vienna maker as I understand it.
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I took quite a few pictures of the blouse and the awards today, close-ups of the sewing etc. I'll post quite a few, apologies if it's boring (!), but it might be of interest to some!
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Some closer shots of the eagle.
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In the lower shot, it almost appears as though the eagle has been applied (or reinforced) at this point with the same actual length of thread as used to construct the jacket?
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Behind the collar you can see the same thread is used throughout for the collar reinforcement and the factory applied collar tabs.
The thread used to retain the collar tress is as expected a (very) slightly different shade, and would have been applied at a later date, perhaps by the unit tailor.
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Two more pictures behind the collar where the collar tabs have been applied.
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Some closer shots of the shoulder straps showing the matching age tarnish between the collar tress and the straps.
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Two more close shots of the shoulder straps showing the 'basket-weave' effect in the rayon piping. I sometimes think of it as a series of steps, like stair-cases stacked against each other. Just my way of describing it!
Also, note the remaining blue paint on one of the shoulder strap buttons. It makes sense that these buttons are handled less on a daily basis, perhaps why more of the paint has 'survived' here.
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More button details. All of the buttons are marked (some faintly) with an "M" (it's upside down, sorry!) in a diamond, but no date.
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The back of the tunic and the back of the collar.
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I added some original later war steel feldgrau painted belt hooks (courtesy of Helmut Weitze, he currently has a few).
You can see the wear here, particularly on the left side (top picture).
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A shot inside the tunic, behind the eagle (the stitch lines are the top of the breast pocket), i.e it does not show through to the interior, although it does in some examples of M43 tunics, and most M44 tunics.
Also, a closer shot of the EK2 ribbon, you can just see the fraying where the ribbon has worn over numerous instances of buttoning/ unbuttoning.
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The interior of the EK2 ribbon attachment. I tend to think it looks wartime applied overall.
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