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    Salty Totenkopf Tab

    This well-used fellow.........
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    #2
    ......came from eBay.

    See here......

    http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=182011&page=2
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    Last edited by Robin Lumsden; 11-25-2006, 07:39 AM.

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      #3
      Robin,

      That is a great collar tab and a very hard pattern to find. It is the transitional between the left facing and the later types, on velveteen. I am missing this type, on felt badge cloth, and appreciate knowing of this pattern.

      Bob Hritz
      In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

      Duct tape can't fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.

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        #4
        Thanks Bob.

        I can't believe there is any pattern of TK tab that you are missing!

        I knew this was a scarce type, and paid a fair price to get it, but I think it was worth it.

        I'm slowly but surely building up a collection of one representative example of each of the main types of TK tab. I never usually collect 'doubles' of anything.

        So I have just 7 types to go.......but I think they're the difficult ones!
        Last edited by Robin Lumsden; 11-25-2006, 07:34 AM.

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          #5
          For the information of others, here are some of the other M40-pattern machine-embroidered types that this tab resembles, but is different from. First, the left-facer......
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          Last edited by Robin Lumsden; 11-24-2006, 03:31 PM.

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            #6
            ......then the slit-eye type.....
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              #7
              ....the 'square-head' type......
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                #8
                .....the common 'alien' type......
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                  #9
                  ......and pumpkinhead, which hardly resembles the top tab at all.......
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                    #10
                    The SS-T Division was destroyed almost three times over between 1941 and 1945 and continually had injections of new personnel, which I think explains the various production runs of these machine-embroidered horizontal tabs. Scores of thousands must have been produced, as over 60,000 men served in the division alone, not to mention the SS-T Standarten used as police troops in the occupied territories, but the early tabs are not easy to find. Pumpkinhead and the alien are the ones found most commonly.

                    Officer tabs and Bevo tabs are a whole different story.

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                      #11
                      I am glad you appreciate that tab Robin..the seller and his shill was less than honest with me in the previous auction..

                      Alas, integrity is a foreign word for some in the dealing of militaria...

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by kurskss View Post
                        I am glad you appreciate that tab Robin..the seller and his shill was less than honest with me in the previous auction..

                        Alas, integrity is a foreign word for some in the dealing of militaria...

                        I don't know anything about that. As I said earlier, I didn't even see the thing when it was first offered for sale.
                        The seller was fine with me........no problems with shipping etc.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Bobwirtz
                          Hey Bob,

                          That first Totenkopf collar tab you posted... is that the one with braces on his teeth?

                          The other Bob

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                            #14
                            Thanks Robin.

                            Nice Tk tabs , it is good see the real deal .

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