Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Schlageter Memorial Association 10-Year Honour Badge, Owner-Attributed Example, by Wächtler & Lange Archive until September

until September

bearing a machine-embroidered silver wire threaded Wehrmacht-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

It measures 297 mm x 209 mm

when the absence of smoke would allow us to obtain a view of the scene

” (Regiments Staabsquatier) on April 29th

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Schlageter Memorial Association 10-Year Honour Badge, Owner-Attributed Example, by Wächtler & Lange Archive until September(10 Jahres Ehrenzeichen des Schlageter Gedchtnis Bund). Constructed of silvered tombak with enamels, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a ring bearing an inscription of ALBERT LEO SCHLAGETER and dates 1923 26. MAI 1933, overlaid by a Maltese Cross with ribbed arms, bearing a central swastika circumscribed by an inscription of SCHLAGETER GEDCHTNIS BUND E. V., the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a