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Silver cigarette case - 1939

Hello

I need your help on this cigarette box. There is something written on it in russian. A beautiful writing font. I can’t understand it.
Does it mean something interesting to you ?

Thank you very much

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What color brown was the original SA/SS brownshirt?

I’m looking for information on the original SA brownshirt aka the (Rossbach bought) ‘Lettow Shirt’ (1924-1929c) It was worn by Hitler, Hess, Himmler and many others attending the 1927 Reichsparteitag. It was even worn by Horst Wessel

Hitler wearing the shirt in 1926 Hoffmann test photos

Here is Hitler wearing the shirt with Goebbels at the 1927 Reichsparteitag

Also from the 1927 RPT: Hess, Graf, Himmler, Hitler, and others wearing der shirt

1927 RPT: Hitler with Hess , note the unique drape of the upper sleeve

Himmler wearing the shirt

As does Horst Wessel

Very specifically, I’m looking to locate one of these rare shirts , from a private
collection if possible, to answer a few basic questions:

Photos show it to be a rather dark brown, with pearlescent buttons, but what shade
of brown was it?

What was the shirts material? It appears to be rather course in the photos. denim?
cotton? gabardine? It also looked to have a sheen to it. what does it look like to you?

What was the reason for the unique upper sleeve cut? Do you think it was meant to
adjust the length of the sleeves?

Hand colored photos and a few paintings are the only color references which could
be found.

here are a few:

This appears to be a painting made from a 1926 Hoffmann photo

This was a hand-colored cigarette card also made from the same 1926 photo, although with a different shade of brown.