WSS NCO officer canidate tunic ... what a BEAUTY!!!!

[bnz. 42]

different flaps/curves

[Daniele C]

i d like to see the jacket on a torso or on somebody wearin it in the same position of the soldier in the photo first...hard to tell

[Glenn McInnes]

How can a person wearing this jacket change the size and scallop of the pocket flaps? (thanks for the picture BNZ42)

Come on guy's,some of you are just making excuses.This kind of monkey business has been going on for decades,don't be blind to it.


$15K USD is a lot of bread for a Heer cut jacket with SS insignia applied post war.





Glenn

[NTZ]

The old “find a picture and create a tunic to match” trick. Don’t be blind guys the scallops are surely from two different tunics.

[B. N. Singer]

Those who are Nay-sayers concerning this piece deserve well earned kudos IMHO!!

Outstanding effort, exceptionally close yet NO brass ring!!

B. N. Singer

[Fritz]

just look at the rarest of the rare that SS combi....

Me personaly I wouldn't be so sure about this one actually.


Cheers

Fritz

[Spanish Freiwillige]

A question a bit independant from the controversy around this tunic,

Was there any chance that in the mid or late stages of the war some army cut tunics were issued with SS insignias?

I remember reading a post in which a photo of a latvian volunteer surfaced with an army cut tunic with SS insignias?

Please bear with me as I am new to cloth Waffen SS collecting and are very eager to learn.

If this tunics ever apeared during the war I understand they were the exception, maybe of a volunteer first incorporated to the Heer and later to the SS perhaps? Like a Walloon or Spanish volunteer maybe?

I apreciate your sharing of knowladge

[rameses]

I hate to rain on everyones parade but myself and a few other collectors DO NOT believe this is the jacket pictured in the period photo.

Here is a comparison photo.....Any thoughts?





Glenn

hello friends the truth is that the subject ss is not my subject to collect, but this uniform of the photo is not the same one that the uniform that has been sold, to above watch the pocket of the corners, I have marked it in a red line, and the necklace is not the same one. in the Web they have cleared the photos bad signal
regards
xisco

[rameses]

different flaps/curves

he is correct this is what I talk about is not the SAME UNIFORM jumps to see it

[NTZ]

The interesting thing is that the tunic in question was intentionally set up to look like the one in the pic with officers candidate boards, award loops, etc. The next question is the who did it, dealer or previous owners(s)? This is one that could pass by a dealer who didn't spend all day examining it.

[HIAG]

100% put-together tunic, compare the distance between the right breast pocket and skirt edge. Poor buyer, I am sure he paid extra for that period picture.

Fortunately there was no poor buyer, I withdrew tunic several days ago when a prospective customer expressed concern over the tunic.So all has ended well except for the poor consignee, who unfortunately cant return the tunic to the dealer he originally bought it of!!

Strange thing about this tunic is the insignia, I've spent ages looking at the photograph with a magnifying glass and the insignia in the photograph is definately the insignia on the tunic??? and the tunic is also a genuine piece,with correctly applied award loops and a beautifully applied officer quality collar..But after putting the tunic on a manniquin and looking at angles I must go along with the general concensus that the tunic is not the one in the photo..

Kind Regards Keith

[PANZERPIONIERE]

Good for you Keith.
With this hobby, 99.9% of the items we look at are bad.
It is a wonder anyone of us collect anymore.
As we all know 10 years from now all these 30-40 year old fakes will be considered authentic.
Steve

[Dr. Strangelove]

Oh no they will not, I intend to be alive. Thanks to cloning.

[Fritz]

Oh no they will not, I intend to be alive. Thanks to cloning.

That will not be difficult, mein Führer...


Cheers

Fritz

[herrgeezer]

Fortunately there was no poor buyer, I withdrew tunic several days ago when a prospective customer expressed concern over the tunic.So all has ended well except for the poor consignee, who unfortunately cant return the tunic to the dealer he originally bought it of!!

Strange thing about this tunic is the insignia, I've spent ages looking at the photograph with a magnifying glass and the insignia in the photograph is definately the insignia on the tunic??? and the tunic is also a genuine piece,with correctly applied award loops and a beautifully applied officer quality collar..But after putting the tunic on a manniquin and looking at angles I must go along with the general concensus that the tunic is not the one in the photo..

Kind Regards Keith

My hats off to you, and bnz. 42. At least the tunic was examined on a torso so the discrepancies could be confirmed by the seller. And that's all I was saying, as I think that angles and light can certainly play into, perhaps making the wrong judgments based solely on measures that taken in one state vs. another, but as you so noted Keith you made your judgment after viewing the tunic on a mannequin torso. <o></o>