Superb - and fully matching! - pair of early- (ie. pre-war-) period WH (Heeres), 'M36'- (ie. 'M40-) pattern rounded-style, 'cyphered' EM-type shoulderstraps as was intended for a: 'Soldat u. Mitglied des Pionier-Bataillons 57'

This is an attractive - fully matching and with certainty scarcely found! - pair of (fairly early- ie. rounded-styled), neatly 'cyphered' WH (Heeres) enlisted-mens'-type (ie. 'M36'- ie. 'M40'-pattern) shoulderstraps as piped in the black- (ie. 'schwarzer'-) coloured branchcolour as was specifically intended for - and clearly used by! - a simple soldier (ie. 'Soldat') who served within engineers'-unit ie. bataillon, numbered: '57' being a part of the 57th infantry-division) and that comes in an overall nice- (albeit moderately used ie. worn- and/or most certainly once tunic-attached-), condition. The straps are just moderately worn and do show some minimal wear, age and/or staining but are void of any real damage or alike (as can be seen on the pictures). The straps show the desirable black- (ie. 'schwarzer'-) coloured- and/or 'silk-like'-type piping and measure approximately 11,8 cms. in length each. The pieces came mounted onto their (I deem) later-added but period tongues attached (as can be seen on the pictures). The shoulderstraps show the neat (machine-embroidered by means of so-called: 'Kurbelstickerei') '5'- and/or '7'-numerals (ie. cyphers or 'Ziffern') attached (as can be seen on the pictures). All four 'cyphers' are executed in the black- (ie. 'schwarzer'-) coloured wool ie. linnen (and are additionally piped with white-coloured thread as to be expected). The pair is constructed from the typical darker-green-coloured wool and is with certainty a 'standard-issued'-pair. These type of shoulderstraps are of the fairly early-war-period-pattern straps and were worn in the period around 1939/1940 (and were 'worn-out' even during the rest of the war). This particular pair originated from a larger cloth- ie. 'cyphered'-shoulderstrap-collection I recently acquired for the web-site. Simply an attractive - and with certainty desirable! - 'cyphered', 'Pioniere'-related EM-type shoulderstrap-pair that belonged to a: 'Soldat u. Mitglied des Pionier-Bataillons 57'; I deem that I priced this attractive and desirable pair according to its overall nicely preserved condition!

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