Germany, SS. An Early and Mint 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf Officer’s Collar Tab

(Waffen-SS Kragenspiegel für Offiziere der 3. SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf"). An early 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf Officer’s collar tab, constructed of black wool with a buckram core, trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, and bearing an early vertically-arranged and machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire Totenkopf, the reverse retaining a fully-intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label bearing a maker’s code of “A4/158” and a secondary code of “164309”, measuring 44 mm (w) x 56 mm (l), in near mint condition.