Anyone see these shoulder boards before?

[johnz138]

Have any of you seen shoulder boards like these before? I don't remember if I ever saw these on a uniform in pictures.

[serge]

Italian Schoulder board of "Grande uniform" for lower officers of the infantry mod34.
serge

[johnz138]

Interesting. Thank you.

[enorepap]

Hallo Johnz

These are the special shoulder straps, made of black cloth, piped with the characteristic Arm-of-Service colors (in this case, red for Infantry) and bearing the badges embroidered in gold in the center, for the grey-green full dress uniform M34 of the warrant officers.

They were trimmed around the perimeter by a woven cord in the shape of Savoy knots:

- blue striped gold for warrant officer 1st class (maresciallo ordinario);
- gold striped blue for warrant officer 2nd class (maresciallo capo);
- gold for warrant officer 3rd class (maresciallo maggiore);
- gold with a loop around the button for aides-warrant officer (aiutante di battaglia).