Russia, Imperial. A Cossack Chokha Auction Going to investigate

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the left collar tab displays two diagonally oriented silvered aluminum rank pips (all prongs intact on the reverse)

1953-1956 (in red

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered golden-brown Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Russia, Imperial. A Cossack Chokha Auction Going to investigateA rare and very well preserved Imperial period Cossack chokha, constructed of black wool. The shoulders are flanked by boards constructed of golden yellow wool with a buckram core, and which are topped by silver aluminum wire tresses bisected by a single length of red machine emroidered piping and pinned with dual gilded stars (corresponding to an Imperial Army rank of Podporuchik). Each measuring 62 mm (w) x 145 mm (l), the boards are affixed in