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LOT 2130
German WWI Kaiserliche Marine Pea Jacket
1914-1918 A.D.
24 3/4 in. (1.14 kg, 63 cm long).
Dark blue fabric waist-length pea jacket with cotton lining, double-breasted format with two columns of nine gilt buttons to the front with Kriegsmarine insignia and corresponding button-holes, and six more to each cuff; left arm with inverted chevron Obergefreiter insignia in braided cord with another in yellow cloth below it. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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