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Army 59th Infantry Regt Feldwebel "Old Style" TunicReichsheer pattern private purchase service dress tunic. Made of a very fine quality wip cord type wool with light grey green color with dark green collar with six button front with white piping down front of tunic. Tunic has four pockets, top two are the patch pleated type, bottom two are the slash type with pocket flaps and the tunic buttons are a nickel type with a matt pebbled finish. The collar tabs Litzens are of alumi wire mounted on a white backing and are machine sew to the collar with first pattern silver alumi NCO braid around top edge of the collar. Shoulder boards are the sew in type, made of dark green wool with white wool piping with first pattern silver alumi NCO braid with early silver plated regt number 59 with one silver plated rank pip on each, the numbers and the pips are tarnished some, but look real nice. The breast eagle is very high quality, hand embroidered in very fine quality silver alumi bullion wire on a grey green doe skin type wool. Tunic has loops for small ribbon bar and loops for one badge. Tunic is lined with a grey silk rayon type material, has one inside breast pocket and one tail flap pocket with slit in lining for the edge weapon hanger, also had tailors bevo weave tag, but has come apart with wear. On the bottom left cuff you can see faint out line were the old pattern Marksmanships awards stripes were, had four bars and one chevron, very hard to see but there, these were removed when the new type cord came out. Overall tunic is very high quality with only minor wear and age.High Exc + $1350.00 Very Rare |
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