WH (Heeres) early-war-period- (ie. 'M40'-pattern) 'cyphered', NCO-type shoulderstraps as intended for usage by a medical-orderly ie.: 'Oberfeldwebel eines Sanitäts-Abtlgs. o. Rgts.'

This is an attractive - and/or fully matching! - pair of (I deem) typical 'standard-issued'- (ie. non-tailor-made'), WH (Heeres) NCO- (ie. 'M40'-pattern) shoulderstraps as piped in the darker-blue- (ie. 'blauer'-) coloured branchcolour as was intended for usage by a senior-NCO (ie. 'Oberfeldwebel eines Sanitäts-Abteilungs o. Regiments' (ie. sergeant first-class or medical orderly who served within an army medical-unit) and that comes in an overall very nice- (albeit moderately used ie. worn- and/or most certainly once tunic-attached-), condition. The neat straps are just moderately used and/or worn and do show both some minimal wear, age and/or staining but are void of any damage or alike (as can be seen on the pictures). The straps - which are constructed from darker-green-toned wool - show the desirable, darker-blue- (ie. 'blauer'-) coloured- and/or woolen-type piping attached and measure approximately 11,2 cms. in length each. The pieces show the 'standard'-pattern, (bright) silver-coloured, NCO-braid period-attached and come mounted onto their period tongues (as can be seen on the pictures). The pair shows a neat pair of (fully identical, larger-sized and/or: typical 'Buntmetall'-based) so-called: 'Aesculapus'-cyphers (ie. 'Ziffern') and two pairs of (aluminium-based, regular-sized) pips period-attached denoting the NCOs rank of an: 'Oberfeldwebel' (or: sergeant first-class and/or senior-medical orderly). Of additional interest is moreover the fact that the 'Aesculapus'-cyphers were period-attached in a somewhat 'sloppy manner' (something that I have seen before). These type of shoulderstraps are of the typical (early- ie. pre-) war-period-pattern straps and were worn in the period around 1940/1941 (and were 'worn-out' even during the rest of the war). This neat pair originated from a smaller cloth- ie. shoulderstrap-collection I recently acquired for the web-site. Simply an attractive - and with certainty desirable! - 'Sanitäter'-related NCO-type 'Heeres' shoulderstrap-pair that belonged to an: 'Oberfeldwebel eines Sanitäts-Abteilungs o. Regiments' and that is with certainty accordingly priced!