SS Ruin Officer Tabs

[pbatalas]

Hey guys! I'm really not that good on silver threading on SS tabs, I usually feel comfortable on Dachau tabs but if you guys can help me identify this one as I am buying some of a friends collection and I have found some fakes, I just don't know on this one.

Thanks, guys !

[sutka]

something is not right here
mark

[Stossgruppe3]

something is not right here
mark

Mark . . .

Can I ask why you made that comment please Sir ?
For me they look okay ?
Regards David

[C. Betz]

Tab

Original.

Charles Betz

[ton g]

To me it looks like a good late-war machine embroidered pair.

Grss

[sutka]

sorry my mistake
must be just the foto
thickness of the runes on the top picture compere one to another

[coogan]

I don't wade into cloth threads often but the rune tab is an exact match to a vet. acquired one I have who was part of the division that liberated Dachau.

[rbno]

I can find no obvious fault with these.

A few comments:

1. Exact matching pairs of SS tabs are uncommon, to say the least. This is the red flag that made me take a closer look at them.

2. The black cloth used for the runic tab is different from mine, as is the weave of the buckram. However, the black cloth and buckram do look correct for TR period.

3. Usually the stitching on these late war runic tabs is not quite as precise as on this one.

4. On the other hand, construction details are spot on! This includes certain details I would say link these tabs to the same maker as my tab.

I suspect you have a rare matched set from the same maker as mine, just from a different production run. Congratulations.

Alen

[chahler]

Nice and original late war ss Officer collar tab

[pbatalas]

Thanks guys ! there's two more pieces i am unsure about that i will be posting as well ! Thanks again gents

[Ludwig]

Look good to me.

[espenlaub]

Original late war, but not a machine embroidered. It's a mistake. There no machines which can make such embroidery from a twisted thread, and if someone seen backside of the embroidery, there must be the base thread on the reverse. Such a tabs has never this issue, and they are never exact same as other machineembroidered