Germany, SS. An SS-Verfügungstruppe/Waffen-SS Cap Button, Late-Issue Unmarked Version Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic on a blackish-blue wool base

on a blackish-blue wool base

painted typical Afrika Korps olive drab

secured on both sides by original bronze buttons with the Bersaglieri insignia

Aluminum studs emanate from the sides of the shako and retain an intact black leather chinstrap

Germany, SS. An SS-Verfügungstruppe/Waffen-SS Cap Button, Late-Issue Unmarked Version Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic on a blackish-blue wool base(SS Verfgungstruppe Knopf fr das Mannschaftsschiffchen). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Totenkopf emerging from a pebbled field, the reverse retaining a lug, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of an unmarked variant produced in the late prewar and early wartime period and worn by SS Verfgungstruppe and Waffen SS prior to the introduction of embroidered Totenkopf insignia, measuring 20. 47 mm in diameter, in extremely