Question

[Emil_Doctorul]

Most probably, these are metal stripes for officers that were used on the applied counter-epaulets. These epaulets were used either on the outing dress or they were used on a campaign dress which was older than the 1941 pattern, most probably 1934.  The 1941 campaign dress had its epaulets sown in the edge of the shoulder and made from the same cloth as the coat with stripes made from golden threads and not metal ones.

[Emil_Doctorul]

You may find a good example of what I was saying right on this forum at the following link.

http://www.traditia-militara.ro/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1282672996/30#30

The last two portraits are of a Major who is wearing the specialty colored applied counter epaulets with metal stripes and in the second one you have a Lieutenant-colonel who is wearing the war pattern epaulets with thread stripes.

We didn't have metal epaulets insignia for the professional soldier in World War 2.

[Emil_Doctorul]

Mr. Andrei

I noticed a problem on your forum that we must clear out.
The metal bars that I have seen there belong to a NCO and they were used in parallel with the cloth ones. This is because before the war, like in the officers case, the NCO-s also had metal bars which were used on the outing dress but on the campaign dress they had cloth ones.
Like in the case of the officers some lower ranks also took their old metal insignia on the front lines and this is how you got to them.
They are not signs of a professional soldier but are the same signs for NCO-s as the cloth ones. The difference between the bars of the NCO-s and the lower ranks' bars in term of building material was that the lower ranks had stripes made in woven cotton and the NCO-s had them in either metal or in woven golden thread.

[Emil_Doctorul]

I understand.
NCO=Non-Commissioned Officer, under officer, German: unteroffizier, Romanian: subofiter.
In the Romanian Army in those days, and today too, the following ranks: sergent-major (starshy serjant), plutonier (starshina), plutonier-major (praporshik), plutonier-adjutant (starshy praporshik) formed the Corps of under officers, Romanian: Corpul Subofiterilor.