Germany, SA. A 1936 SA-Gruppe Hochland Winter Sports Competition Victor’s Plaque, with Case, by Carl Poellath Republic of WWI 80th Infantry Battalion Collar

WWI 80th Infantry Battalion Collar Tab Pair CEF - Pickled copper and pickled brass

Panzer-Aufklärungs-Lehr-Abteilung 139m issued at headquarters on 15 March 1945 and certified by the handwritten signature of an unidentified Oberleutnant and stand-in company leader

at the age 23 and was commissioned the following November

originally suspended from a short yellow ribbon with two Union Jacks sewn in place

with fading evident to the border of the postcard

Germany, SA. A 1936 SA-Gruppe Hochland Winter Sports Competition Victor’s Plaque, with Case, by Carl Poellath Republic of WWI 80th Infantry Battalion Collar(Plakette der Wintersportwoche der SA 1936 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle clutching an edelweiss defaced by a Sturmabteilung (SA) insignia, flanked by an inscription of DER FHRER DER SA GRUPPE HOCHLAND (THE LEADER OF SA GROUP HOCHLAND), circumscribed by an inscription of WINTERKMPFE DER GLIEDERUNGEN DER N. S. D. A. P. OBERSCHREIBERHAU (WINTER SPORTS GAMES OF THE DIVISIONS OF THE NSDAP