Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Officer’s Flat Wire Cap Eagle Archive very fine/extremely fine condition

very fine/extremely fine condition

The 226th Battalion (Men of the North)

Footnote: According to page 37 of Robert Werlich’s “Jettons of Imperial Russia”

both pin assembly and catch have been War-time repaired/reinforced

Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Officer’s Flat Wire Cap Eagle Archive very fine/extremely fine condition(Waffen SS Mtzenabzeichen fr Offiziere). Constructed of black rayon, the obverse bearing a silver aluminum flat wire SS style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, applied with careful machine stitching, affixed to a field grey wool base retrieved from a Waffen SS service cap (most likely a Schiffchen overseas cap), the insignia measuring 74 mm (w) x 30 mm (h), the wings rendered slightly downward pointing with the cut of the