Original German WWII Late Pattern High End Metropolitan Police Shako with Chins Scales & Cockade German Machine Guns Belgium toField hospital and sentTo

Belgium toField hospital and sentTo general hospital in Paris

declassified Soviet archives later showed that the Soviet leadership was caught by surprise

It has a dull steel finish with no pitting

Model 1867

There is also definitely some wear to the red felt band

Original German WWII Late Pattern High End Metropolitan Police Shako with Chins Scales & Cockade German Machine Guns Belgium toField hospital and sentToOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent condition high grade Rural Police 1936 Officers pattern Tschako, with the late pattern green wool body and brown leather trim. It has a very fine quality police officer aluminum eagle front plate, with high grade silvered aluminum chin scales, something we rarely see. From what we can tell these were only worn by high ranking officers, and we have not had an example previously with this type of