An SA wind jacket & kepi for sale. The M1923 SA wind jacket & kepi to SA member & Blood Order holder, Robert Wust. The SA kepi made from typical grey/green cotton, the front with two buttons holding the flap and early cockade bearing a swastika to the centre. The kepi-lining in a smooth grey/blue cotton. Robert Wust's name attached to the side.

The SA tunic wind jacket in grey/green cotton with a double row of typical  'football' style buttons. The wind jacket conforming to the usual style, with two side pockets and two lower, pleated box pockets.The left-hand sleeve bearing a cotton, multi-part construction, swastika brassard, with a metal '2' to the centre. Attached to the left-hand collar, an early, (possibly 1923) pre-RZM manufactured, enamel swastika NSDAP party membership badge.

Condition report: The SA kepi faded, buttons mis-matched to the front. Showing much general use  particularly to the inside. Similarly, the SA wind jacket, showing much use overall with old repairs and  fraying in places. The  wind jacket cloth also showing some fading. The buttons missing from both the lower, pleated pockets.

Background: The M1923 SA wind jacket and kepi became the uniform of the German  SA/NSDAP in 1923; the uniforms were worn at the 9th November Putsch, and became symbolic of the NSDAP Struggle.

In 1933 Hitler decreed, the uniforms were to be worn at the annual, 9th November Putsch Commemoration (by NSDAP members who had participated in the Putsch).  An Office for the 9th November Putsch was established in 1933, to assist in replacing  NSDAP uniforms which had been lost by original SA members.

Background to Robert Wust: Wust was a member of SA-Regiment Munchen, 2. Kompanie. He was awarded the Blood Order Medal numbered '902,' 1934.

Provenance: The M1923 SA wind jacket and kepi, discovered by a family in Germany, while clearing their late grandfather's attic. To date the family have not established how, or why, the SA uniform was acquired: the grandfather was not Robert Wust. Documentation to be furnished with the uniform.