Early SS Photo

[Raymond270]

I found this photo in the archives it is not a M1 tab but it is
pretty rare I think.

[KRISSE]

It is a very early 'Ost'-collartab. Oakleaf has one for sale. See items 101SS1

German cloth & metal insignia insignia

http://www.oakleafmilitaria.com/images/101ss1-1.jpg

[Raymond270]

Yes thank you I have seen it. I have contacted oakleaf before about a few items but for some reason
when they sell a item they still leave it up there on the website for a very long time.

[jHAM]

I believe this is the photo I cropped to show the cap insignia on the crash helmet. This is one of many images from the SS-Schutz-Staffel-Appell der Gruppe Ost in August 1933. It most certainly shows the Ost collar insignia.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Well done, dear friend. This image is also contained in the picture book on the year 1933 published soon thereafter. I have included it in the past and I own two copies of it. I have to unearth it from my heap.

Here is the SS Gruppe West name in the cap and or caps. Soon thereafter, the SS was reorganized in its territorial echelons and the East/West delineation was abandoned.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

source

1933 Das Jahr der Deutschen. von Streicher, Julius.: Vaterländischer Verlag C.A.Weller,, Bln., OLn., goldgeprägt. - Altstadt Antiquariat Bode

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It is not an especially rare book, but it is useful for uniform fanatics and otherwise.