restore a blacky or not

**hawkins** · 10-18-2012, 03:54 AM

I have a lovley officer;s black tunic that needs restoring should i or should i leave it as is . not sure .. i love it but at the same time thinking it will all ways be restord , any thoughts on this or move it on

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-18-2012 03:54 AM

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**Sir Payne** · 10-18-2012, 03:55 AM

Can you post a picture of it?

**Good Pwny** · 10-18-2012, 03:55 AM

Got pics?

**BOB COLEMAN** · 10-18-2012, 04:22 AM

Restoration is always a tricky question. The decision is up to you as to whether you can live with it as stripped or not. As you said, restored is always restored. In the future, a new owner may never know the history of the piece. If you choose to restore it, may I suggest making it in to an Allgemeine unit in lieu of a VT or Totenkopf piece. I would consider that to be an honest restoration and not attempting to make it in to what it likely never was.

**hawkins** · 10-18-2012, 04:23 AM

will get some up not worred about it not been real it is i am looking for some thoughts about to restore or just leave as a stripped officers tunic or move it on ..
funny its stripped but i have a love hate afair with it HAHa

**hawkins** · 10-18-2012, 04:26 AM

by BOB COLEMAN

Restoration is always a tricky question. The decision is up to you as to whether you can live with it as stripped or not. As you said, restored is always restored. In the future, a new owner may never know the history of the piece. If you choose to restore it, may I suggest making it in to an Allgemeine unit in lieu of a VT or Totenkopf piece. I would consider that to be an honest restoration and not attempting to make it in to what it likely never was.

thanks Bob would love to do totenkof but thats $$$$$$$$$$ i have spent years looking at it trying to decode it as it been of top class tricot

**Bochmann** · 10-19-2012, 01:31 AM

If it were mine, I would restore it.
To me an unrestored tunic is just a jacket as it has no purpose.I am with Mr Coleman, in that you should seek to resore it in a sympathetic manner and it would be interesting to see if it has any stamps in it that would give any indication as to a previous unit or time frame that you could use to assist you in how best to complete it.
I have only ever had one black tunic that I sold a long time ago and have regreted doing so ever since.
As you can guess from the tone of my reply, I envy you, and I would not look on such an opportunity as a chore, but a challenge.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-19-2012, 04:41 AM

Here are some examples for your reflection. These are NOT restored, by the way, other than I switched the arm band on the SS Hauptamt suit to one of the identical year and in better shape that is 1 9 3 7. .

**Dimas** · 10-19-2012, 06:56 AM

If you restoring the tunic to Allgemeine SS ( tabs and cufftitle can be found for 1000-1350 USD, even a cheaper), it will be 5 times cheaper, then SS VT, or 5-10 cheaper against SS TV.
I never reapply insignia to the uniforms, I'am just using the tailor's pins to fasten it to the uniform, and then it looks great in the display