Strange tab on a portrait

[stefanob]

I have this in my collection.
Really I don't see a runic tab on this portrait (but it might be the perspective), but if it isn't...what is this?..."7"?!...Estonian?...
Can someone help me?

Thanks a lot in advance
Stefano

[klasterix71]

looks like runes tab to me

[kuratorium]

looks like runes tab to me

agree.
btw- here the same hstuf.:

[stefanob]

thanks...I tried to reproduce the angle with a runic tab but it seems to me that it works in a different way...

looks like runes tab to me

[Ian Hulley]

Runes tab to me as well

Ian

[RD Rygaard]

Maybe post war printed? You see this on death notices quite often, insignia is either blacked out or distorted so picture is "legal" to display.

I have this in my collection.
Really I don't see a runic tab on this portrait (but it might be the perspective), but if it isn't...what is this?..."7"?!...Estonian?...
Can someone help me?

Thanks a lot in advance
Stefano

[Ian Hulley]

The tab is bent over, we see the bottom of two and the cross bar of one.

Ian

[stefanob]

Yes maybe (as you said and as I've seen on many death cards)...it forms part of a small konvolut of this officer and sincerely it don't seams a post war photo or re-painted photo...

Maybe post war printed? You see this on death notices quite often, insignia is either blacked out or distorted so picture is "legal" to display.

[Michael73]

Yes maybe (as you said and as I've seen on many death cards)...it forms part of a small konvolut of this officer and sincerely it don't seams a post war photo or re-painted photo...

No worries, my friend, your photo is right as rain!

[Fritz]

Perhaps a numbered rune tab with the number removed, the runes look like they are not in the centre and instead placed more towards the "end" of the tab (like with a numbered tab).

Cheers

[TrondK]

Wikingship?

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru....php?p=4161383

Just a wild shot in the dark, estonian tab most likely

[NickG]

Wikingship?

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru....php?p=4161383

Just a wild shot in the dark, estonian tab most likely

Great photos. In the DOT camo uniform he's been promoted to Captain (= 2 pips) Hauptsturmfuhrer!
In the earlier image with open collar tunic he is just a 2nd lieutenant (Untersturmfurer) based on his collar tab with 3 pips only (no bars...)
meaning no pips should be on the shoulderboards ... would have been blank...but there is something there...
So its a cypher of some sort, so it's a unit that used a "lettered" cypher like LAH or DF etc... so you can probably eliminate the Viking ship tab for Wiking Div and the Estonian sword tab possibilities ...
Unless its a numbered Regimental cypher of course...which could have been used by such Foreign volunteer Divisions, but it looks too big for that scenario! It's most likely just SS in a weird wrinkled angle...