Germany, SS. A Waffen-SS Gebirgsjäger Standartenführer Shoulder Board Archive A dark-brown cotton-blend belt wraps

A dark-brown cotton-blend belt wraps around the tunic to meet a gilded bronze belt buckle featuring a sunburst and chrysanthemum

1939 by Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Braunchitsch

service papers

the reverse with a central medallion marked “N

he took postgraduate work in otolaryngology (study of ear

Germany, SS. A Waffen-SS Gebirgsjäger Standartenführer Shoulder Board Archive A dark-brown cotton-blend belt wraps(Waffen SS Schulterklappe fr einen Standartenfhrer der Gebirgstruppe). Constructed of black wool with a rigid card stock core, topped by a layer of green wool, overlaid by four bands of interwoven silver aluminum wire piping, and pinned with two rank pips, retaining a pebbled aluminum button with a reverse screw post and nut, unmarked, measuring 35 mm (w) x 100 mm (l), demonstrating some material fatigue to the wool underlay (possibly consistent with