Germany, Heer. A Tropical Wehrmacht Signal Troops EM/NCO’s Blouse Newly Listed on a thick newsprint-like stock

on a thick newsprint-like stock

with part of the "G" missing

chipping evident in the green enamels on the tip of the star point at 12 o'clock on both sides

dated to Darmstadt on 27 March 1918

maker marked on loop with H

Germany, Heer. A Tropical Wehrmacht Signal Troops EM/NCO’s Blouse Newly Listed on a thick newsprint-like stock(Wehrmacht Tropenbluse). An example of a tropical blouse belonging to Wehrmacht Signal Troops personnel, as worn in the entire Mediterranean theater of war, including Africa and Southern Italy. The shirt is constructed of olive drab coloured cotton twill, featuring a traditional turned down collar that transitions into breast flaps. Each flap has a horizontal slit breast pocket and a horizontal slit waist pocket, all secured shut via a scalloped flap