Really Rare Late War Camo Jacket

I knew it was rare when I bought it, but not how rare !!!!!

There are a few photos of these being worn, but most never made it out of the factory to depots for issue, due to the general German infrastructure collapse in early 1945.
 
Very nice. This would look great with an MP44 Sturmgewehr and either a ventless M42 (M45) or a B/II prototype helmet.
 
These were issued to troops for trials in Czecoslovakia by the end of the war from what I can recall. There are a few pictures online, even a russian soldier posing with captured pants. Some people speak of a rare leibermuster Zeltbahn but I've never seen any prototype, no to be confused with the overprinted zeltbahnen and so called carbon overprint.
 
The name "Leibermuster" likely goes back to the printing technology engineer Hellmut Leiber, who, together with the Kattundruckerei "Schlieper & Baum AG", Wuppertal-Elberfeld, applied for a patent for the production method and color mixture of the Leibermuster: German patent specification 909 667 of May 4, 1942 "Process for the production of camouflage patterns on fabric webs and similar flat structures" and German patent specification 897 689 of March 12, 1944 "Process for the production of colored patterns on fabrics and other materials."

see: https://www.forum-historicum.de/tarnmuster-der-deutschen-armee.html
 
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The name "Leibermuster" likely goes back to the printing technology engineer Hellmut Leiber, who, together with the Kattundruckerei "Schlieper & Baum AG", Wuppertal-Elberfeld, applied for a patent for the production method and color mixture of the Leibermuster: German patent specification 909 667 of May 4, 1942 "Process for the production of camouflage patterns on fabric webs and similar flat structures" and German patent specification 897 689 of March 12, 1944 "Process for the production of colored patterns on fabrics and other materials."

see: https://www.forum-historicum.de/tarnmuster-der-deutschen-armee.html
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Excellent observations
 
BTW:
The factory facilities of Schlieper & Baum in Elberfeld and the surrounding area were almost completely destroyed by British air raids in the summer of 1943.
The company management desperately tried to find other production sites. Unfortunately with little success. It is not yet known where the Schlieper & Baum company moved production.
 
Here is my cheap chinese knockoff for comparison. I had to know what a 1945 trooper might look like. L-R: B/II prototype, phosphate M42, M45 ventless x2.
 

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Wow !!!! Really rare !!!!!

The Chinese fake looks good / I wonder how close they got with the camo pattern ?????
 
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