Chris Boonzaier Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 This is an interesting Mantel, unfortunately to the 1st Jäger Battalion and not the 2nd, but you take what you get..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share Posted March 24, 2017 One of the interesting features... other than the Private piece is unit stamped, are the buttons on the front. Unlike the issue other ranks coat the buttons on the front are not functional. the functional buttons are hidden along the wearers right side.... The reason for this is (apparently) that many of the men wearing these were possible candidates for Lt d. Res.... which would have required them to buy an officers overcoat.... with this... if the NCO ever became an officer, the buttons in the middle were moved to the one side, and an extra row of buttons were added to the other side.... and there were no button holes down the middle to show it was once an coat for NCOs.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share Posted March 24, 2017 You can see the senior NCOs in this one wearing the same type of greatcoat.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccj Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 That's a very interesting overcoat to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 A Bavarian collector gave me a bit more infromation... It seems this is a typical Fähnrich set up. The Jäger wore the green shoulder boards well into WW1, so this is the tunic as it would have been worn by a Fähnrich during the first couple of years of the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adler 1 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 That's a very nice item to ad to your collection! Adler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 4 hours ago, Adler 1 said: That's a very nice item to ad to your collection! Adler 1 And to the almost perfect unit!!! Of course... a "2" on the shoulder would be better :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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