Germany, NSDAP. A Rare Standard Bearer’s Gorget, by Eugen Schmidhäussler Archive including McCoy

including McCoy

A fine quality manufacture and well preserved German Cross in Gold (Deutsches Kreuz in Gold)

overlaid by a dagger wrapped with a multi-headed serpent

light contact overall

with a second-pattern Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika in its talons in silvery-white machine embroidery on both sides

Germany, NSDAP. A Rare Standard Bearer’s Gorget, by Eugen Schmidhäussler Archive including McCoy(NSDAP Ringkragen fr Fahnentrger). Constructed of a bronzed aluminum alloy, the obverse bearing a raised NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, situated within an oak leaf border, the reverse featuring a thick dark green wool liner, topped at the corners by brass clips retaining an original neck chain, with links bearing alternating raised NSDAP eagles and wreathed swastikas, with one gorget clip and two chain links