Panzer Shoulder Board

[anton67]

Can anyone tell me anything about this Panzer shoulder board?

[footiefan]

This is a unteroffizier cavalry shoulder strap to cavalry rifle regiment 3 (kavallerieschutzenregimenter) effective from 3rd November 1938

Hope this helps

Dave

[Schulterklappen]

Strap

I have never seen anything quite like it. The style of embroidery is odd and if black it would be an strange combination with "S3". The basic strap looks okay from the limited photos. For Kav. or Panzer Schuetzen I would expect the strap to be badge cloth usually. Is it pink piped? I can't be sure on my monitor.

[rbno]

To me, it's just a tailor made sew-in strap. The S and 3 are a little odd, but I would be happy to put it in my collection.

Alen

[anton67]

Here are some more photos.
Hopefully this will be helpful.
I believe the piping to be pink.

[TWS]

Looks better in the new photos, but still a little unusual.


I would say Schuetzen (Rifle) Regiment 3, but the S and 3 should be pink like the piping, and it's not the common embroidery - which is usually chain stitched. However, boards with that type of embroidery are encountered, in privately commissioned pieces like through a tailor shop as rbno mentioned.

[Schulterklappen]

S3

Now that you can see it is the dark green badge cloth and not black everything fits together better. Is it possible the S3 was pink and faded out?

[anton67]

thank you all for your help.
A lot of people asked where the items I posted came from.
Here is the collection.

[LuckyStrike23]

Now that you can see it is the dark green badge cloth and not black everything fits together better. Is it possible the S3 was pink and faded out?

I rather believe the man came from a Reiterregiment and kept his old branch colour. The golden yellow guys are bit strange - until today.

[manayunkman]

You can see a huge difference between the pink on the top and bottom of the edge piping.

It has faded but not as bad as the S3.

Shouldn't the S3 be in aluminum? Or did they take their EM board and added tresse with no regard to the S3?

[Schulterklappen]

You can see a huge difference between the pink on the top and bottom of the edge piping.

It has faded but not as bad as the S3.

Shouldn't the S3 be in aluminum? Or did they take their EM board and added tresse with no regard to the S3?

For Unteroffizier rank they used embroidery instead of metal numbers and cyphers.


You can see more examples through this thread:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...er#post5931519

[longislandercjv]

Anton;
It is a "tailor made" piece, probably for a Waffenrock. (it's a sew in)
The fading of the embroidery is common on these straps;
apparently the dye is absorbed differently on the embroidery thread
than the piping.
The major anomaly is the configuration of the "S3" embroidery;
IMO, this is the tailors rendition of what it should look like, probably
not having an example to go by.

I like it!