Attractive - and fully matching! - pair of neatly 'cyphered', WH (Heeres) officers'-type shoulderboards as (dual)piped in the black-coloured branchcolour as was intended for a: 'Leutnant des Landes-Bau-Pionier-Btls. 8'

The attractive - and actually scarcely observed! - WH (Heeres) 'Pioniere'-related shoulderboard-pair is neatly piped in the black- (ie. 'schwarzer'-) coloured branchcolour and was intended for usage by a: 'Leutnant des Landes-Bau-Pionier-Batallions 8' (or: junior-officer ie. lieutnant who served within the 'Pionier'- (ie. engineers-) related, construction ie. 'Bau'- 'Bataillion' (ie. battalion), numbered: '8') and comes in an overall very nice- (I deem just minimally used- and/or carefully tunic-removed-), condition. The shoulderboards are 'text-book'-examples of the 'Heeres'-type, 'Pioniere'-shoulderboards and have the silverish-grey-coloured (ie. somewhat 'sub-dued'-pattern) 'upperdecks' (as can be noticed on the pictures). The boards show the desirable black- (ie. 'schwarzer'-) coloured branchcolour and were constructed from the typical 'smooth'-type wool as to be expected. The boards never had any tongues attached and were intended for - and minimally used! - as a pair of the 'sew-in'-pattern (as can be seen on the pictures). The boards measure approximately 11 cms. in length each and were most certainly issued- and/or worn as such and do show moderate age, wear and/or staining as to be expected. The pair - that was recently found at a German private-household - shows a fully matching set of (scarcely found, neatly bright-golden-toned, Latin-styled, larger-sized and/or identical) 'L'-cyphers (ie. 'Ziffern') and (equally-styled, larger-sized) '8'-numerals period-attached. All four devices are just minimally stained- ie. tarnished but have preserved a fine and fairly bright- (and/or quite shiny!) age-patina. Simply an attractive - and truly scarcely found! - WH (Heeres) officers-pattern shoulderboard-pair that belonged to a: 'Leutnant des Landes-Bau-Pionier-Batallions 8'!