Imperial German Guard Foot Artillery Major Silver Field Officer Shoulder Board
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SKU: 23-1013 XJT@JT
An original field officer’s silver-cord shoulder board (Schulterstück) of the Garde-Fußartillerie-Regiment (Guard Foot Artillery Regiment), of the grade of Major. The reverse carries a collection label reading “Fig. 7.1 – G Fus AR.” Crossed gilt cannon barrels on the round interwoven field-officer braid identify the branch and grade; the absence of rank stars denotes a Major.
The board is built of round interwoven (plaited) silver braid — the construction reserved for field officers — mounted on a golden-yellow underlay. The centre carries a gilt crossed-cannon device with flaming-bomb tips, the emblem of the artillery. No rank stars are present, the plain field-officer braid marking the grade of Major. A vertical button slit is worked at the head, and the squared base terminates in cut cord ends.
The Garde-Fußartillerie formed the Guard’s foot, or heavy, artillery, manning the heavier guns and siege ordnance. The crossed cannon barrels mark the artillery branch, while the round interwoven braid identifies a field officer; among the field grades the Major wore the braid without stars, the Oberstleutnant with one, and the Oberst with two. The bright silver braid is the dress pattern, worn before and alongside the subdued field-grey insignia of the war years.
The crossed-cannon device denotes the artillery, and the plain field-officer braid without stars is the rank distinction of a Major.
Condition is very good. The silver interwoven braid is bright with strong definition, and the gilt crossed-cannon device is secure. The golden-yellow underlay is sound and the construction complete. No restoration is evident in the provided images.
A Guard foot-artillery field officer’s dress board, with the distinctive crossed-cannon device and the interwoven braid of field rank, offers Guard, artillery, and field-officer appeal in a single bright dress piece, and stands as the dress and senior-rank companion to the field-grey colonel’s board of the same regiment.
