WH (Heer) Artillery Officer's M36 Field Blouse

Description

Wehrmacht (Heer) Officer's Tunic as intended for a 'Leutnant der Artillerie'. This is a nice Enlisted Men's issue M36-style field-grey wool field blouse with dark-green collar. The tunic was originally issued as an EM's tunic, the original EM's collar tabs are still machine sewn in place with Artillery officers collar tabs machine-sewn on top of the EM's collar tabs. The tunic is in overall very good near mint and unissued condition with minimal age toning. The buttons are all the field-grey pebbled examples. The tunic is complete with all original applied insignia, including a nicely flat-wire woven breast-eagle, sew-in type shoulder boards and machine sewn collar tabs. Both the collar tabs shoulder-boards are piped in the red 'Truppenfarbe' (branch colour) indicating an officer with the rank of 'Leutnant der Artillerie' (Artillery). The tunic is nicely size marked having a chest size of 96cms, the tunic is maker marked by 'Franz Lotto' and dated 1940 (B40). Nice original Artillery officer's field blouse in very good condition!