Army Oberschutze's rank pip.
This bundle comes from a closed down tailor shop that a picker friend in Germany got his hands on.
This is the second pattern, manufactured from 1935-1940.
Diameter roughly 55 mm.
Green/blue dark wool with a central, machine embroidered, rank pip in silvery/grey cotton threads.
Mint condition.
Price is for one(1) piece.
On December 22ND 1920 the Reichsheer instituted a system of sleeve rank insignia for enlisted personnel. The Reichsheer system remained in effect until the newly formed Wehrmacht Heer introduced a new system on September 25TH 1936 that included the Oberschütze sleeve rank pip. Originally the base material of the standard issue rank insignia was in field-grey badge cloth until regulations of October 1935 altered the base material to a blue/green badge cloth. Further regulations on April 25TH 1940 altered the base material of the standard issue insignia to field-grey wool while the coloration of the base material for specialized uniforms such as the black panzer wrap or the olive/drab tropical tunic utilized the base color of the uniform.
