Germany, Wehrmacht. A Tropical Field Gun Barrel Cover United Republic of with an illegible maker’s mark

with an illegible maker’s mark visible on the pinback

featuring three decorations

Wächtler & Lange Mittweida SA” on reverse

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey rank pip

lugs bent over)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Tropical Field Gun Barrel Cover United Republic of with an illegible maker’s mark(Feldkanone Fassabdeckung). An unissued Wehrmacht tropical field gun barrel cover, constructed of an olive drab cotton based canvas cylinder, with the tip completing in a khaki tan twill cover, the rim with a hollow channel through which is looped a grey cotton drawstring emanating from both ends to tie together for a secure fixture to the barrel, unmarked, measuring 254 mm (w) x 605 mm (l) when folded flat, in near mint condition.