Germany, SA. A 1939 SA-Gruppe Hochland Winter Sports Games Merit Plaque, with Case Newly Listed height including suspension 91

height including suspension 91

coming just one year after his ascension to the throne

maker marked “AN

The frame holds in place a leather liner with a core consisting of coarse animal hairs

Germany, SA. A 1939 SA-Gruppe Hochland Winter Sports Games Merit Plaque, with Case Newly Listed height including suspension 91(Sturmabteilung Winterkampfspiele Plakette mit Etui). Constructed of a silvered bronze alloy, the obverse consisting of a disc bearing a central pair of skis overlaid by a German national eagle clutching an SA Gruppe Hochland insignia in the form of an edelweiss defaced by an SA logo, flanked by an inscription of DER FHRER DER SA GRUPPE HOCHLAND (THE LEADER OF SA GRUPPE HOCHLAND), in turn circumscribed by an inscription of NS WINTERKAMPFSPIELE VILLACH