Germany, Heer. An Infantry Enlisted Personnel Dress Tunic

(Heer Parade-Waffenrock für Männer der Infanterie). A very well-preserved Heer Infantry Enlisted personnel dress tunic, constructed of field-grey wool. It features a turned-down collar trimmed with white piping and lined on the top with smooth dark green wool. It is flanked on each side by tabs constructed of white wool with buckram cores, topped by dual silver aluminum wire insignia, which measure 35 mm (w) x 75 mm (l). The shoulders bear straps constructed of smooth dark green wool with a field-grey underlay, trimmed with white piping. Each measuring 48 mm (w) x 110 mm (l), the straps are secured in place with machine stitching at the outer edge, and with pebbled magnetic metal buttons bearing raised numerals “3” on the inner edge. Both cuffs feature a layer of smooth dark green wool trimmed along the upper edge with white piping, and which are overlaid by dual white wool insignia bearing silver aluminum wire tresses topped by pebbled aluminum buttons. The upper left arm retains a Oberschütze rank insignia consisting of a dark green wool backer bearing a single machine-embroidered silver-grey pip, measuring 55 mm in diameter. Stitched onto the upper right breast is an insignia consisting of a field-grey wool backer, topped by a layer of grey rayon, in turn bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, measuring 115 mm (w) x 50 mm (h). It closes with eight pebbled aluminum buttons on the right breast meeting an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left flap. A vertical slit is set into the lower reverse which is flanked by scalloped flaps, lined along the edge with white piping, and which is flanked by four pebbled aluminum buttons and topped by pebbled aluminum belt hangers. The interior is fully encompassed by a multi-piece olive-drab rayon liner which has a single pocket located at the upper left breast. Illegible black ink size marks are visible above the pocket, situated just below a similarly illegible maker’s mark. The tunic measures approximately 46 am across the shoulders, with an arm length of 57 cm, and an overall body length of 68 cm. Demonstrating only minor material fatigue to the outer wool and interior liner, the tunic remains in an overall near extremely fine condition,