Heer Medical Officer Field Jacket

winter country jacket, datable to the Great War, for the cut probably used by Captain Doctor attached to the Mountain Department: in gray-green wool cloth with dove-colored canvas lining, oxidized metal buttons loaded with crown, shoulder pads of silver thread mottled and subdued with blue, loaded with grade stars and caduceus in gilded brass, "litzen" collar (insignia) for Officer in silver thread with blue profiles; in good condition with signs of use and honest patina of time; rare