Germany, Ordungspolizei. An Aachen Schutzpolizei Meister NCO Tunic, by C. Appelrath

(Schutzpolizei Waffenrock). This tunic is fabricated from police-green wool exterior with a light-green cotton-blended interior lining. The breasts of the jacket close by eight reinforced button holes meeting an equal number of pebbled, silver-coloured metallic buttons, stamped on the reverse with “R. Deitenbeck”. The tunic bears four breast pockets, with two on each side, each with reinforced buttonholes meeting a pebbled, silvered zink buttons. The collar, constructed of dark-brown wool, is neatly lined with green woven piping that continues down the length of the breast flap. The interior right collar has three magnetic metal hooks meeting an equal number of magnetic metal eyelets on the left allowing the collar to sit flush with the neck. The collar is flanked by tabs composed of green-coloured wool base, bordered by twisted silver aluminum bullion wire, bearing machine-embroidered twisted silver aluminum bullion wire columns, measuring 35 mm (w) x 75 mm (h). Shoulder boards rest on each shoulder, constructed of grey and brown threading that is densely looped around to meet a pebbled button, surrounded by a U-shape of silvered aluminum bullion wire and brown thread embroidered in a chevron formation, on a green-coloured wool backer, indicating the rank of Meister, measuring 40 mm (w) x 110 mm (h). The left upper arm bears a sleeve insignia in the form of a police-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with the city of “Aachen” included, in machine-embroidered green thread, within a larger oval wreath, all sewn onto a field-grey backing, measuring 90 mm (w) x 95 mm (h). At the end of each sleeve is a brown cuff measuring approximately 100 mm in depth, bordered by green thread, and adorned by two pebbled buttons. Striped off-white rayon-blended material lines the interior of the sleeves. The interior of the tunic contains a pocket on the upper left breast stamped with “C. Appelrath G.m.b.H Aachen,” the numbers “101 743 56,” and the date “1939,” along with a reinforced slot that opens into the left waist pocket. The collar measures approximately 500 mm at the shoulders, 600 mm in the arms, with an overall length of 830 mm. Some slight tearing is evident inside the collar, but the tunic is in an otherwise extremely fine condition.