Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Gau Sudetenland Honour Badge Auction Archive Berlin badge

Berlin badge

Dark patina on obverse

Schnek studied Russian at Kazan from May 1895 to May 1896

mint period-original ribbon

with nicks in the blade

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Gau Sudetenland Honour Badge Auction Archive Berlin badge(Sudetenland Gau Ehrenzeichen). An extremely rare and well preserved example of a Gau Sudetenland Honour Badge, of multi piece construction, consisting of a nickel silver oak leaf wreath bearing a gilded tombak NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a swastika, wreathed joined together at the bottom by a raised date of 1938 and multi coloured enamels stripes in the style of the Sudetenland flag, reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical