Stunning - and fully matching! - pair of early- (ie. pre-war-) period WH (Heeres), 'M36'- (ie. 'M40-) pattern (rounded-styled and 'cyphered') NCO-type shoulderstraps as was intended for an: 'Uffz. u. Mitglied des Pionier-Bataillons 48'

This is a very attractive - fully matching and with certainty truly very scarcely found! - pair of (fairly early- ie. rounded-styled), neatly 'cyphered' WH (Heeres) NCO-type (ie. 'M36'- ie. 'M40'-pattern) shoulderstraps as piped in the black- (ie. 'schwarzer'-) coloured branchcolour as was specifically intended for - and clearly used by! - a junior-NCO (ie. 'Unteroffizier') who served within engineers'-unit ie. bataillon, numbered: '48') and that comes in an overall vey nice- (albeit minimally used ie. worn- and/or most certainly once tunic-attached-), condition. The straps are just moderately worn and do show some minimal wear, age and/or staining but are void of any real damage or alike (as can be seen on the pictures). The straps show the desirable black- (ie. 'schwarzer'-) coloured- and/or woolen-type piping attached and measure approximately 11,6 cms. in length each. The pieces came mounted onto their period tongues attached (as can be seen on the pictures). The shoulderstraps show the neat (machine-embroidered by means of so-called: 'Kurbelstickerei') '4'- and/or '8'-numerals (ie. cyphers or 'Ziffern') attached (as can be seen on the pictures). All four 'cyphers' are executed in the black- (ie. 'schwarzer'-) coloured wool ie. linnen (and are additionally piped with white-coloured thread as to be expected). The pair is constructed from the typical darker-green-coloured wool and is with certainty a 'standard-issued'-pair. These type of shoulderstraps are of the fairly early-war-period-pattern straps and were worn in the period around 1939/1940 (and were 'worn-out' even during the rest of the war). This particular pair originated from a larger cloth- ie. 'cyphered'-shoulderstrap-collection I recently acquired for the web-site. Simply a very attractive - and with certainty desirable! - 'cyphered', 'Pioniere'-related NCO-type shoulderstrap-pair that belonged to an: 'Unteroffizier u. Mitglied des Pionier-Bataillons 48'; I deem that I priced this truly attractive and desirable NCO-type pair according to its overall very nicely preserved condition!

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