Check out this SS Officer uniform!

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Sorry for the ddelay in getting back to this - the Holidays are to blame...

Anyhow, here are some more photos that were requested.

Close-up of the area where a breast eagle would have been. No visible signs, however...

[tgn]

There is signs of tunic fading. This can be seen by lifting up the pocket flaps. This fading could have occurred anytime during or since the war. But if an eagle had been present until recenly, there would surely be a shadow:

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Runic tab close-up:

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Back of collar, showing machine sewing line:

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Rank tab close-up:

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Back machine sewing line:

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Flatwire sleeve eagle cloes-up:

[Bob Coleman]

I Saw This Uniform Several Years Ago And Do Not Recall Seeing A Shadow Of An Army Eagle Over The Pocket. It Did Not Excite Me Very Much At The Time. Maybe I Was Having A Bad Day. Maybe The Price At The Time Turned Me Off. Regardless, I Trust Tom's Opinion On This Tunic And Will Say No More. He Has Been At This Hobby A Long Time.

[John Pic]

Looks very nice in the close ups.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Tunic

Well nothing would beat having it in hand for a few weeks and making some phone calls and finding out the tunics whole story, but I admit from the fotos I see no red flags. Potentially a real bargain.

[N.C. Wyeth]

Where are you, Bill?

Man how you guys can get so off amazes me. This stuff did not come from a Dr. Go and read my posts again. I said I did not know about the Doctors other stuff meaning the Doctor in Chicago, I sold the uniform to.

Here it is again guys so listen closely. I had heard about this collection about 6 years before. The guy who owned it had Alzheimer's and had been put in a nursing home. The brother did not want to sell it before his brother died. Well 6 years later I got a call and to my surprise along with the Japanese swords was a pile of German uniforms, Hats, Swords Helmets, Flags ect. Some of the flags were still in the original tubes he had mailed them home in after the war. This is what started me collecting German items. Most of the German stuff was just unbelievable. The guy was in both Germany and Japan after the war and sent piles of stuff home. All the stuff was un-messed with and original. This was about 8 years ago I think.

I found GDC on the web and posted some pics and all the sudden every big dealer and collector in the country was calling and emailing me trying to buddy up.

I have also emailed Kris and told him if the tunic does not sell I would love to buy it back because I know it is good.

I am sorry so many of you guys have been burned bad and don't believe anything but things like this do happen.

Believe me I have been burned a few times for a lot of money but I don't constantly cry about it. I just move on and learn my lesson!

I only posted this because I felt it would help clear up some of the mystery behind this uniform.

Hope this helps!

Hello Bill,

If you are still out there somehwere . . . would you mind dropping me a message? In addition to this message, I have sent an e-mail to you, hoping you would reply . . .

I would like to see these photographs some day . . . do you still have them, and could you post them here?

Does anyone else recall these photographs, or happen to have them?

Thanks in advance for your kind reply . . .

[John Pic]

I used to, Bill offered me that tunic when he first acquired it he actually talked to me on the phone about it. I didn't have the money so it was listed on a website for sale.

[N.C. Wyeth]

Would like to see these . . .

I used to, Bill offered me that tunic when he first acquired it he actually talked to me on the phone about it. I didn't have the money so it was listed on a website for sale.

Thanks, JP - maybe someone else has them, and will come through one day after seeing this?

[billmunny]

where is it now?

I recall this tunic from the Warelics sight for years; where is it now?

[N.C. Wyeth]

I recall this tunic from the Warelics sight for years; where is it now?

I know it is still out there - but where the ensemble resides now, leaves it well out of sight.

I have been told, when these photos become available - the photos that Bill mentions having taken at it's original discovery - this may inspire another appearance.

Until then, I suppose we'll just have to sit back and wait . . .