Early SS cotton armband?

[jasmof]

I thought I would post this armband also. I've had it for a few years and it's of cotton construction. Is the consensus that these are early cotton armbands of the Brownshirt period?

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[RobertE]

It looks like a good one in terms of materials, and these cotton/linen types were worn during the brownshirt period. Based on the width of the band, I'd say this is an original SS type and not a standard armband with added stripes. Many of these era bands have the nice cloth tags with maker and such, but this one apparently does not.

Most of the woven swastika-type bands I've seen have been early (pre-1939), but I don't know if that feature alone allows us to date it more accurately.

It's a very attractive armband!

regards, Robert

[rbno]

Looks like a nice pre - RZM armband made specifically for the SS. It is not a standard party type that someone added black stripes to at sometime in the last 80 years or so.

[jasmof]

Thanks, guys. After 1939, were all SS armbands made of wool? Are there RZM examples that were made of cotton?

[RobertE]

Here's a typical tagging convention on the pre-war ones...