An overcoat for Prussian officers, dated 1914
Fine dark blue cloth with ponceau red piping and stand-up collar, two rows of smooth golden buttons by Busch, Potsdam, shoulder straps in the rank of lieutenant looped in at a later date as an addition (silver braid interwoven in black, red cloth lining). Black silk lining with an inside breast pocket, containing the tailor's label “C.H.Busch Hoflieferant Potsdam” with the handwritten wearer's name “Oberstltnt. Graf von Spee” and date “6.14”, sleeve lining in white silk (tears). Rapier slit. A few minimal moth holes here and there, signs of age and wear.
349294
Condition: II +
Fine dark blue cloth with ponceau red piping and stand-up collar, two rows of smooth golden buttons by Busch, Potsdam, shoulder straps in the rank of lieutenant looped in at a later date as an addition (silver braid interwoven in black, red cloth lining). Black silk lining with an inside breast pocket, containing the tailor's label “C.H.Busch Hoflieferant Potsdam” with the handwritten wearer's name “Oberstltnt. Graf von Spee” and date “6.14”, sleeve lining in white silk (tears). Rapier slit. A few minimal moth holes here and there, signs of age and wear.
349294
Condition: II +
