Tropical Heer Aufklärungs EM shoulder straps

[PaulW]

Hi, grateful for any opinions on these rare tropical shoulder straps.

As I understand it the reconnaissance gold-yellow Waffenfarbe was normally seen earlier in the desert campaign, slowly replaced by copper brown (and also pink?) but that anomalies existed in that the gold-yellow may have had a 'tradition' aspect in some sub units, also it was used after the desert campaign (e.g Italy, Russia, Greece) by Army units issued tropical clothing.

The underlay is feldgrau, seen from 1942, but not usually in 1941 I believe?

Any comments welcome.

Best regards, Paul

[PaulW]

Thought I would add the rest of the tunic for interest. It is from the Virtual Grenadier. This same tunic was on the website some years ago with Medical (Cornflour blue) piped shoulder straps but has been re-consigned with the above shoulder straps. Naturally it's rare to find a tunic with it's original wartime straps after decades of multiple ownerships, and this tunic is likely unissued and therefore probably did not have any when taken from a store etc?

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