SWEDISH TUNIC ON SALE ON EBAY.

NOTE: This uniform was bought at a pawn shop in the late 80's. It was, in fact, converted to a German WWII M42 style tunic. Ebay does not allow the sale of Nazi images, or items. I therefore digitally deleted the offending insignia off the photo's I posted on the ebay sale's page. Here you can see that the insignia is still in place. If you buy this tunic and would like these removed, please say so and I will do so. I did not want to remove them as I am no taylor and do not want to risk damaging the garmet.

The tunic is size 52 (european) and fits me well enough and I am a size 42.

The insignia is a bit odd to me. The waffenfarbe on the shoulder board is either pink or red. Panzer units used pink piping and Artillery used Red. Tank crewmen had black uniforms, however, crews in open topped vehicles (like early Anti-tank vehicles) wore Feld-grau uniforms. The Artillery branch covered field guns, self-propelled guns (though I don't know if Self-propelled Artillery in Panzer units were piped pink or red) and all Stug III and IV and other self-propelled guns in the assault- Artillery units.

The collar is black. However, from what I read, the Dark collars on early M39 and M42 tunics, were in fact a Dark or Forest Green. SS units may have had black collars, but I never researched into that.

The buttons are all pebbled and feld-grau painted.

The Collar patches are Heer (Army) with pink or red piping.

The breast eagle patch is a bright green. I know they used bright green triangular breast eagle patches on late war uniforms, but I don't know how authentic this is for early war tunics.

The tunic is in excellent condition, except I've lost the lowest center button. (I played paintball in this jacket instead of doing the re-enactment thing I had originally intended).

 

Here are a frontal, rear and inside view of the tunic.

Thank you and email me about any other questions.

 

Kurt J. Bowker

mailto:kjbowker@msn.com