Wonderful material, Darryl, indeed. A pity one does not know where these black textiles reside now. Thank you for the images and your generosity to us all in every sense. The Fulda- Werra piece is for the Sturmbannfuehrer who was a graduate of Oswald Pohl's administrative academy, sorta, and was on the staff of the Oberabschnitt HQ. Pohl was quite the genius of organization and training, and those who wore this badge were part of his accolytes. In any case, a marvelous uniform. Thanks to colleagues for all the fetid black woolens. Beyond Mr. Ostermann's Reiter, though, this thread is borne by a small group known to one another. It is sad we cannot summon forth further examples unknown to our little band of seekers. It is somewhat akin to the search for life in the wider galaxies. Is there so little in fact? Then these black fabric things are far more rare than I might have thought. I always imagine that there are unknown collections with hundreds of examples, in sub terranean bunkers, in something like Area Fifty One or the Alpine Redoubt or Xanadu &c. It is sad that the images from the Coleman collection and the Pepera collection were annihilated with the end of the Bob Rodgers site. These figures have much in their wonderful collections.
