U-125 Army Sonderführer (Lieutenant Equivalent)
Service Tunic
Besides Panzer and Propaganda Troop uniforms, a Sonderführer
(Specialist Officer) tunic is among the scarcest of tunics and one of the most
difficult to find. This impressive piece is about a size 40 in a real fine
quality Trikot wool (medium field grey shade). The fabric is excellent, with a
very smooth nap, though there is some light soiling (including a few faint
spots) and light inner collar wear. It is a textbook piece, with the Luftwaffe
color “fliegerblau” (bluish-grey) collar – this in a very fine cloth
material (not wool/felt) that is a near perfect match with the facing of the
hand embroidered aluminum bullion “Old Prussian” Litzen (these being long,
wedge shaped tabs with a point at the rear). The collar exterior shows some
light soiling, and there is some light abrasion wear around the top inner edge
of the neck (and a bit of “ring around the collar” soiling). The sew-in
boards are perfect examples of regulation Sonderführer accouterment: perfectly
matched, four rows of matte aluminum braid with black and red (side by side)
chevrons evenly spaced along the length of the braid. The boards have the
distinctive fliegerblau (blue/grey) Sonderführer underlay in a heavy wool/felt
– in excellent condition. These are the boards indicate a “Zugfuhrer”
(military term for a person in charge of a platoon or group) - in the Sonderführer
system, a title essentially equivalent to the military rank of Leutnant. The
tunic has a fine Officer’s quality hand embroidered bullion eagle, very nicely
hand applied. The tunic is fully lined in dark field grey rayon, with the
sleeves lined in off-white rayon with grey pinstripes. There is a slit
professionally worked into the tunic cloth at the lower left hip pocket level,
for a dagger or sword hanger, with the opening carefully reinforced, and there
is also a dagger hanger strap with plated clip. Despite the slight moth damage
to the exterior, this rarely encountered Sonderführer tunic still rates very
good and is an amazing piece worthy of very serious consideration.
$1,750.00
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Item U-125
