S003263 SCHUTZPOLIZEI DES REICHS REVIEROBERWACHTMEISTER’S SERVICE TUNIC & PANTS. (Dienstrock Diensthose und für Unterführer)

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Nice quality, slightly mottled, Police green, wool/rayon blend construction service tunic with a subtle whipcord weave features a vertical, eight button front closure with dual, metal hooks and eyes positioned at the forward neckline and a chocolate brown wool, lay down collar. The left edge of the front closure panel and the lower half edge of the right, front closure panel are trimmed in green wool, truppenfarben piping. The tunic has two, pleated, patch, breast pockets and two, non-pleated, patch hip pockets, all with scalloped button down flaps. The straight cut, sleeves have non-adjustable, simulated French cuffs in chocolate brown wool with dual ornamental buttons to the outside sleeve seams and green wool truppenfarben piping to the top edges. Both sleeves have a narrow, machine woven, bright, silver/aluminum, ribbed and zig-zag patterned, tress strip neatly handstitched just above the French cuffs. The tress strips seem to indicate the position of Polizei Zugwachtmeister Kasernierte Bereitschaften, (Barracked Police Prepared Reserve Unit, NCO rank). The upper left sleeve has a post-November 1941 pattern, machine embroidered police eagle encompassed by a vertically oval, oak-leaf wreath all in green cotton truppenfarbe threads with black eye and swastika detailing, mounted on a cut-out, slightly mottled, vertically oval, police green, wool base. The wool base is neatly handstitched to the sleeve. Of Note: Originally police NCO’s sleeve eagles included the name of the location where they were stationed but regulations of November 10^TH 1941 abolished the name for all but the Freiwillingen Feuerwehren, (Volunteer Fire Brigades), and the Pflichtfeuerwehren, (Compulsory Fire Brigades), personnel. The reverse of the tunic has a short, central, vertical tail skirt vent with two ornamental buttons to the top edge and an additional two ornamental buttons to the bottom edge. The tail skirt vent is flanked by small, ornamentally, vertical panels which are piped in green wool truppenfarben. The tunic has the April 10^TH 1941-May 8^TH 1945 pattern, sewn on shoulder boards featuring dual, outer edge, bright, silver/aluminum, Russian braid with evenly spaced, interwoven chocolate brown "V"s, encompassing dual, inner, chocolate brown braids, with a single, silver washed, stamped alloy rank pip and a silver washed, stamped alloy, numerical cypher, "7", to each, mounted on a green rayon truppenfarbe bases. Presumably the numerical cyphers indicate the service area precinct. The shoulder board retaining buttons are intact. The forward edge of the lay down, chocolate brown wool, collar is piped in green wool truppenfarben and the collar features machine woven collar tabs with a police green rayon base with interwoven litzen in bright, silver/aluminum flat-wire threads. The base police green rayon shows through the litzen as the branch of service and the center stripes and the collar tabs have a twisted, bright, silver/aluminum cord piping. The collar tabs are machine stitched to the collar. The interior of the tunic is fully lined in ribbed, grey cotton twill with black striped, pale grey rayon sleeve linings. The lining has a horizontal, slash, pocket to the left breast and a dual, small, vertical slash "glove" pockets to the reverse of the tail skirt vent. The reverse of the exterior left hip pocket has a small, police green wool reinforced, horizontal, slash designed for the dagger/sword hangers. All three, fold back, sheet metal collar liner retaining clips are intact to the collar, but have been applied in the wrong fashion with the folding clips positioned beneath the lay down collar. The lining to the right front closure panel is well marked with black size inkstamps the date, "1940", and the faint, manufacture‘s name and location that appears to be, "Schlösser & von der Nahmer Wuppertal-Elberfeld". The lining to the right breast panel has the black inkstamped designation, "Po", indicating Polizei, and a small, white rayon label with the red, machine woven owner’s name, "Schamann", neatly handstitched in place. The tunic is in overall very good condition with minor chafe wear to the cuff and collar edges and minimal age and usage toning. The buttons are all the bright, silver washed, pebbled alloy type and are still quite clean and bright and all appear to have their original stitching. The tunic is quite small with roughly a size 34", (86.3cm), chest. Also included are a nice quality, post-1938 pattern, police green, rayon/wool construction, piped, straight legged long pants with a subtle whipcord weave. The pants feature a vertical, four button, French fly with an additional metal hook and eye positioned on the horizontal waistband. The front of the pants have two, vertical, slash, side seam pockets and a small, horizontal, slash watch pocket to the right side of the fly. The bottom seam of the right waistband has a small metal ring, stitched in place, designed to secure a watch chain. The horizontal waistband has six, evenly spaced, suspender attachment buttons. The reverse of the pants ride slightly higher then the obverse and have two, evenly spaced, slightly diagonally angled, vertical, tapering darts, a single, horizontal, slash pocket with a scalloped button down flap and the typical "V" slash to the reverse center of the waistband. Curiously the button down flap has been applied upside down. The reverse of the pants also have two, horizontal, fit adjustment strap with a corresponding, black painted, magnetic sheet metal, dual pronged, opened rectangular buckle. The vertical, outside, leg seams each have inserted, green wool truppenfarbe piping. The pants have straight cut, dual-ply hemmed, non-adjustable cuffs. The interior cuffs each have a narrow, ribbed, greyish/brown, cotton/rayon reinforcement strip and small greyish/brown, cotton/rayon panels, presumably intended to secure foot stirrup straps. The foot stirrups are absent. The interior waistband is lined in brushed, black striped, pale grey rayon while the internal pocket bags are in light weight, ribbed tan cotton twill. The pants have no visible size or manufacturer’s markings. The pants are in overall very good condition with minor age and usage toning and about a half dozen, pin head sized moth nips. The buttons are the molded brown bakelite type and all appear to have their original stitching. The pants are roughly size 38", (96.5cm), waist.

GRADE ****                             PRICE $1,169.00

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