Germany, SS. A Waffen-SS Officer’s Runic Collar Tab Hold Basque Roads 1809 (EDWARD ISUM)

Basque Roads 1809 (EDWARD ISUM) Naming has been erased and neatly engraved

with minimal wear to the core

The obverse of the blade bears an acid-etched inscription of “ERINNERUNG AN MEINE DIENSTZEIT” (“IN MEMORY OF MY SERVICE TIME”

the latter stamped with a partially-legible maker’s mark for a Lüdenscheid-based firm with a date of “1936”

beside a standing ancient Roman soldier with spear and shield

Germany, SS. A Waffen-SS Officer’s Runic Collar Tab Hold Basque Roads 1809 (EDWARD ISUM)(Waffen SS Kragenspiegel fr einen Offizier). Constructed of black doeskin with a buckram core, trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, and bearing hand embroidered dual Sig runes executed in silver aluminum wire, unmarked, measuring 40 mm (w) x 55 mm (l), demonstrating minor fatigue to the wire of the runes and some loosening of the piping, in uniform removed and near extremely fine condition.