Neat - and fully matching! - pair of WH (Heeres), early-war-period- (ie. 'M36 o. M40'-pattern and 'pointed styled') 'cyphered' NCO-type shoulderstraps as was intended for - and worn by! - an: 'Unteroffizier des Infanterie-Regiments 154'

This is an attractive - fully matching and with certainty not that easily encountered! - pair of WH (Heeres), early-war-period- (ie. 'M36 o. M40'-pattern- and/or pointed-styled) neatly 'cyphered', so-called: privately-purchased, NCO-type shoulderstraps (ie. 'Schulterstücke für Unteroffiziere des Heeres') being of the generic-pattern (and thus having no branchcolour) as was specifically intended for - and clearly worn by! - an: 'Unteroffizier des Infanterie-Regiments 154' (or: junior-sergeant who served within the infantry-regiment, numbered: '154' ) and that comes in an overall nice- (and only moderately used ie. worn-), condition. The neat straps - which have the 'standard'-pattern, darker-green-coloured and/or woolen-based 'upperdecks' – come as stated above with no piping attached (as can be seen on the pictures). The straps which measure approximately 11,8 cms. in length each come naturally mounted onto their functional tongues and come of course in a nice condition, overall. The shoulderstraps show two matching sets of (aluminium-based- and greyish-silver-toned): '1'-, '5'- and '4'- numerals (ie. 'Ziffern') period-attached (something that was actually against regulations but that was more often seen). Of interest is, moreover, the fact that these numerals are of the pattern that was normally used for collar-tabs of the N.S.K.K. something that I have seen before. The straps were only moderately used- and/or worn and do show some moderate staining and/or age simply caused by moderate wear and/or decades of storage (as can be seen on the pictures). They come naturally mounted onto their functional tongues and have the neat 'standard'-type- and/or silver-coloured- (ie. somewhat sub-dued-pattern-) 'Heeres'-type NCO-braid attached, denoting the NCOs'-rank of: 'Unteroffizier'. The straps are constructed from so-called: 'boiled-wool' and are (I deem) a typical pair that originates from a private tailor-shop. This pair originated from a larger cloth- ie. insignia-collection I recently acquired for the web-site. Simply an attractive shoulderstrap-pair that belonged to an: 'Unteroffizier des Infanterie-Regiments 154'!

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