Attractive - and fully matching! - pair of early- (ie. mid-) war-period so-called: 'M40 o. M43'-pattern, WH (Heeres) EM-type shoulderstraps that comes with its attached 'Übershube'-pair as intended for a: 'Soldat der Inf.-Maschinengewehr-Abts. 3'

The attractive - and fully 'text-book' and fully matching! - pair of 'standard-issued'- (ie. 'non-privately-purchased'!) pattern, WH (Heeres) enlisted-mens'-type shoulderstraps is piped in the desirable white- (ie. 'weisser'-) coloured branchcolour and measures approximately 12,6 cms. in length each. The straps have the desirable white- (ie. 'weisser'-) coloured- and/or: woolen-type piping attached (as is more often encountered with these early- ie. mid-war-period shoulderstrap-pairs) and was as such intended for usage by a simple soldier who served within an infantry-related, machine-gunners unit, numbered: '3' (something that can naturally easily be deducted from the attached 'Übershube'-pair). The shoulderstraps - which originate from a larger cloth- ie. shoulderstrap-collection I recenly acquired for the web-site - are typical 'standard-issued'-examples that have the field-grey-coloured- and/or woolen-based 'upperdecks': they were - I deem - only moderately used ie. worn and do show some minimal wear, age and/or staining (as can be seen on the pictures). The straps come naturally mounted onto their functional tongues and came with a (also matching) pair of (field-grey-coloured- and/or woolen-based-) so-called: shoulderstrap-slip-ons (ie. 'Schulterstück-Übershuben') attached bearing both the unit-designation: 'M3' (as executed in equally white-coloured, so-called: 'Kurbelstickerei' done in wool as can be seen on the pictures). Both the shoulderstraps and/or: 'Übershuben' come in an overall very nice and/or totally undamaged condition (as can be seen on the pictures). Of additional interest is, moreover, the fact that the inside of both tongues shows a blue-coloured ink-stamp that reads: '15' (as can be seen on the pictures). These desirable 'M40- o. 43'-pattern, army-infantry-related enlisted-mens'-type shoulderstraps as piped in the 'weisser'-coloured branchcolour can nowadays easily be graded 'fairly scarce'. Simply an attractive - and fully matching! - shoulderstrap-pair that belonged to a: 'Soldat der Infanterie-Maschinengewehr-Abts. 3'!

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