Germany, Federal Republic. An East Prussia Gau Honour Badge, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Auction Archive the cap band is also

the cap band is also stitched with an additional insignia consisting of a dark slate-grey cotton backer bearing a machine-embroidered tricolour cockade

A group of four ribbon bars

most of the silvering rubbed off

spotting evident on the white enamels on the obverse arms

sport and culture

Germany, Federal Republic. An East Prussia Gau Honour Badge, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Auction Archive the cap band is also(Gau Ehrenzeichen Ostpreuen, Museumsstck). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, surrounding a central shield bearing a Teutonic Cross, topped by a stylized depiction of the Tannenberg Memorial, and overlaid by an NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a vertical pinback, unmarked but demonstrating the