Germany. Luftwaffe Oberst Tunic
Germany. Luftwaffe Oberst Tunic
This excellent Luftwaffe Tunic belonged to a Oberst (Colonel) in a Luftwaffe flying units. It is a very fine bluish-gray wool. There are no flaws in the jacket whatsoever and the material showing very little wear. It has four pockets with flaps and all buttons are the aluminum pebbled type. There is a really beautiful officers droop tail Luftwaffe breast insignia. The collar is piped with aluminum bullion and the collar tabs are beautiful dark yellow color velvet background with a full bullion wreath highlighted with shiny acorns. Inside the wreath are three birds, indicating the colonel rank. The shoulder boards are all woven bullion and there is two gold pip on each. These boards are the sewn in type and the pebbled buttons are smaller than the other buttons on the tunic. A MINT quality, navy blue wool cufftitle, hand embroidered in Gothic script, "Geschwader General Wever", in silver aluminum threads. Excellent++ example overall.
A13155