Germany, Nsdap. A Reich-Level Main Department Leader Armband Auction Archive blackened lacquered leather construction Pickelhaube

blackened lacquered leather construction Pickelhaube with red brass metal fittings

and it went down in flames

a branch of oak leaves in its beak

5 Depot RFA at Athlone on September 15

with laurel and oak leaf branches through the quadrants

Germany, Nsdap. A Reich-Level Main Department Leader Armband Auction Archive blackened lacquered leather construction Pickelhaube(NSDAP Leiter eines Amtes Armband). Constructed of red wool, the exterior bordered along both edges with red cotton blended bands bearing machine embroidered gold bullion wire oak leaves, as well as Burgundy red piping indicating Reich level personnel, with a central white cotton blended disc measuring 80 mm in diameter and trimmed with gold bullion wire, bearing a multi piece black mobile swastika similarly highlighted in gold bullion wire, unmarked,