Allg/SS Shoulder Board Query

[mgalat]

I've only been aware of the 6 strand Allg/SS Officers Board for Untersturmfuhrer through to Hauptsturmfuhrer.

Was there ever a regulation 4 strand Alllg/SS board ?

On page 97 of " SS uniforms,Insignia and Accoutrements" by A.Hayes there is a pic of a "Germania" Officer and his shoulder board looks to have only 4 strands.

Cheers
Murray

[panzer2]

Thank you ! for pointing this photo out . i have been looking for photos like this for a long time and its been under my nose all this time a rare photo in it self with details like this .

[kirby]

Thank you ! for pointing this photo out . i have been looking for photos like this for a long time and its been under my nose all this time a rare photo in it self with details like this .

Here is a four strand example with the cloth tag. Kirby

[panzer2]

very nice kirby it please;s me to see the 4 strand with the tag may i ask how you came by that one

[mgalat]

Thanks for posting your example Kirby.....I wonder why there is no mention of them in any books on the subject?

[kirby]

Hello I posted this on WAF a few years ago and was told this is a first pattern board that was replaced with the six row pattern in 1936. I can't remember were I got it but was in the mid 70s.

[HPL2008]

I wonder why there is no mention of them in any books on the subject?

The insignia chapter in the work on the Uniforms, Organization & History of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler by Roger James Bender & Stan Cook actually makes reference to this change from the first-pattern four-strand boards to the second-pattern six-strand boards, giving the date as October 1934.

The usual standard references - Mollo, Angolia etc. - don't seem to make any mention of it, though. (Although I must admit I have not looked too thoroughly, as it is getting late and I am about to sign off for now.)

[mgalat]

The Mollo and Angolia books were the first I turned to... but I haven't found a reference to the 4 strand board in them.

[mgalat]

A four strand Officers board has just been listed :

http://www.hannahsreich.co.uk/shop/v...ph=2471&phqu=5

[kirby]

$534 for a 4 strand board. It must be a rare item to be worth that kind of money.