ITEM # 7917
 

#7917-IMPERIAL PRUSSIAN OFFICERS WAFFENROCK: Pre-1910 pattern, private purchase Officers Waffenrock that appears to have been worn as a service dress into the early WWI period. The tunic is of dark blue doeskin wool having an eight-button front, stand up collar, pipings and Brandenburg cuffs in red wool. It is complete with all of its shiny tombac buttons on the front, cuffs and tail. The tunic has slip-on boards for the rank of Hauptmann in Prussian black-flecked silver braid on a red wool underlay. The boards have twin gilt pips and a cypher indicating attachment to the Berlin Bezirkskommando. The interior of the tunic is fully lined in black polished cotton with pinstriped tan silk inside the sleeves and a sewn in collar liner. It has an interior waist belt with nickel buckle and pocket complete with named and 1910 dated tailors label. The tunic has some post WW1 stampings inside the sleeves. The tunic shows use with age toning to the shoulder boards, areas of wear and light surface tracking mainly to the rear. Condition III+  SOLD