Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Schlageter Memorial Association 10-Year Honour Badge, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac demonstrating minor tarnishing and loss

demonstrating minor tarnishing and loss of finish throughout

above an Iron Cross flanked by laurel and oak leaf branches

) & (136511 SPR

Instituted in 1906 (in bronze

all three silver

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Schlageter Memorial Association 10-Year Honour Badge, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac demonstrating minor tarnishing and loss(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