Germany, SS. An SS-Gruppenführer Collar Tab, Second Pattern

(SS Kragenspiegel für Gruppenführer). Constructed of black doeskin with a buckram core, trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, the obverse bearing three hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire oak leaves interspersed with acorns, flanked by a pip of identical construction, unmarked, measuring 42 mm (w) x 58 mm (l), a scarce tab in extremely fine condition.