M43 FIELD BLOUSE

ENLISTED MAN FELDGENDARMERIE (SS POLICE)

Authentic

Price :  $4500.00

Field-gray, wool/rayon blend construction, M43 style tunic featuring five button front closure and has four non-pleated, front pockets with straight edged button down flaps.  The breast pockets are the patch style while the hip pockets are the saddlebag type with expanding side panels.  Tunic has four sets of two, vertically aligned, stitch eyelets with one set situated at either side of the front closure and two to either side of the back panel, at the waistline.  Eyelets were designed for the belt support hooks.  Sleeve cuffs have vertical outside seam slashes, with adjustment button.  Upper left sleeve has a machine woven SS eagle, in silver-gray threads on a cut-out woven, black rayon base.  

It has the EM's Feldgendarmerie orange shoulder boards and EM SS Collar Tabs, embroidered with standard SS runes on right tab with left blank.  Also the iron cross second class ribbon in button hole.  Interior of the tunic is lined in a gray HBT rayon.  It has some small rips and some staining from general wear especially at the neck.  Lining is still in excellent condition for its age.  Tunic is in overall very good condition but has a small moth or burn hole to the right bottom pocket.  The buttons are the field-gray painted, pebbled, magnetic sheet metal type and most appear to have original stitching. 

SS uniforms evolved from the early "traditional brown" shirt uniform, to the black and earth gray service uniforms in 1932 to the first field-gray uniforms in 1935.  In 1937 a modified field -gray uniform was introduced and was worn throughout the war with minor alterations that basically followed the same modifications of the army style uniforms.  (See below for more pictures)

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