Attractive - later-war-period- and fully matching! - pair of neatly 'cyphered', WH (Heeres) officers-type shoulderboards as was intended for an: 'Oberleutnant des TSD o. Truppensonderdienst'

This is an attractive - later-war-period and fully matching! - pair of specific 'cyphered', officers-type shoulderboards (ie. 'Schulterstücke für Offiziere') as was intended for - and with certainty used and/or worn by! - an administration- (ie. 'Verwaltungs'-related-) officer ie.: 'Oberleutnant des TSD o. Truppensonderdienst' (being of a rank comparable with a: lieutnant first-class-rank) and that comes in an overall nice- (albeit moderately worn ie. most certainly once tunic-removed-), condition. The boards - which have an approximate length of 10,6 cms. - are executed in the 'smooth'-like- and/or (typical) bright-blue- (ie. 'hellblauer'-) coloured wool (aka 'moleskin'-wool) as was specifically intended for later-war-period administrative- (ie. 'Verwaltung'-) officials. The boards - which were worn on the 'standard'-type, field-grey-coloured 'Heeres'-tunics - have identical, faded- albeit once golden-coloured (ie. I deem zinc-based-) so-called: 'Merkurstab'-cyphers and two (regular-sized) pips period-attached denoting the officers'-rank of: 'Oberleutnant'. The shoulderboard-pair never had any tongues attached and was most certainly worn as a pair of the 'sew-in'-pattern (as can be seen on the pictures). The pair was moderately used and shows as stated above moderate age, wear and/or staining. This scarcely seen (later-war-period) 'TSD'-related shoulderboard-pair (which was instituted as late as April 1944) was recently found at a private-household in Germany and was most certainly worn as such: the 'TSD'-official who wore the set always kept and stored it as a souvenir. Simply an attractive - and actually not that easily encountered! - set of officers'-pattern shoulderboards that belonged to a: Heeres-related 'Oberleutnant des TSD o. Truppensonderdienst'!