Germany, Heer. An Oberleutnant’s Panzer Wrap

(Feldjacke für Panzertruppe). A Heer Oberleutnant’s Panzer wrap, constructed of black wool. The wrap features a high collar, flanked on each side by insignia tabs. The latter are constructed of black wool, trimmed with rose-pink piping, and pinned with silvered Heer-style Totenkopf cyphers. Each tab measures 34 mm (w) x 70 mm (l). The shoulders are adorned with boards, both constructed of cardboard-reinforced rose-pink wool, each of which bear four bands of silver aluminum wire piping, and are pinned with gilded rank pips and numerals “57”. The boards, both measuring 32 mm (w) x 100 mm (l), are secured to the wrap by machine stitching at the outer edge and by a pebbled magnetic metal button on the interior edge. The cuff of each sleeve features a vertical slit, with adjustable closure via two black bakelite buttons meeting a reinforced buttonhole. Stitched onto the upper right breast flap is a Panzer insignia in the form of a black rayon backer bearing a machine-embroidered Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika. The insignia measures 95 mm (w) x 40 mm (h). The tunic closes with two small black bakelite buttons on the upper right breast flap meeting and equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left flap, and with three large black bakelite buttons at the lower half meeting an equal number of hidden reinforced buttonholes on the left. Stitched through the upper buttonhole are ribbons for the 1939 Iron Cross and the Eastern Front Medal. A partial grey cotton liner is set within the interior, with both the left and right breast flaps featuring integrated pockets. The right flap liner is also stamped with an illegible maker’s mark and size dimensions. The interior features are completed by an integrated grey cotton suspension loop at the back of the collar, and by a magnetic metal clasp on the right of the collar meeting an analogous magnetic metal loop on the left, facilitating a flush fit with the wearer’s neck. The wrap measures approximately 445 mm across the shoulders, with an arm length of 555 mm and an overall body length of 640 mm. Age-appropriate material fatigue is evident to the insignia, with some soiling of the interior, but the tunic is in an overall near extremely fine condition.