What are these buttons for?

[Wartime Collectables]

Standard Army coat size but prong backs? To big for visor side button and would work as tunic buttons. Did they use these for shoulder straps?

[naxos]

I think they are for the coat-tails of the Waffenrock

[Wartime Collectables]

Oh! Thanks!

[pauke]

Having owned many Waffenrock style tunics I have never encountered one with this style button applied. It is easy to feel the shank of a regular button on the back scalloped panels. The only use for the type button with bendable tabs I can think of might be on an SA kepi where there isn’t likely to be a chance of it being yanked out.

[Wartime Collectables]

Having owned many Waffenrock style tunics I have never encountered one with this style button applied. It is easy to feel the shank of a regular button on the back scalloped panels. The only use for the type button with bendable tabs I can think of might be on an SA kepi where there isn’t likely to be a chance of it being yanked out.

Makes sense, tho they came in the effects of a U.S. Vet with only Army insignia.

[Lloyds]

they were used on parade tunic cuff patches with a thin metal back plate