SS Gruppenfuhrer Tunic | M38 pattern | Provenance

Tailored by the well-known form of August Ahlers, Luneburg

Stunning piece consigned from a major European collection

SS Gruppenfuhrer rank tunic for sale. The M38 field-grey, open-neck tunic, cut exactly as the black Allgemeine-SS jacket. This tunic, tailored in fine quality field grey ribbed gabardine material, has typical pleated top pockets, and slash lower pockets. 

The matched-pair SS tunic epaulettes with entwined gold & silver braids, on grey doeskin, and with one large silvered pip to each. The SS collar patch insignia with silver-aluminium piping and three wire oakleaves on black velvet, along with one embroidered silver pip to each. The collar patches machine-tailored to the collar. The silver-aluminium sleeve eagle & swastika insignia, particularly fine: the eagle motif with  seperated wings, the whole, finished on a black doeskin backing. The tunic complete with an Old Campaigners chevron to the right-hand sleeve.

The SS General's tunic with several medal loops, including a set of loops for a long ribbon bar. The lining tailored in field-grey silk. A full woven tailors label is sewn in place by the left-hand inside pocket, and a woven label showing the firm of August Ahlers to be particularly noteworthy tailors within the tailoring guild, is machined in place next to the tailor label.

The SS tunic is without cuff title insignia or name-tag: there is no evidence to indicate the tunic formerly had these properties.

Condition report: Service used, and surviving in overall, very good towards excellent condition.  Insignia of very high quality embroidery, fresh and free from oxidation.

Provenance: Acquired from the military antiques specialist, Kelly Hicks. One European collection since.