Germany, Third Reich. A Customs and Border Service Decoration Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (SA-Sportabzeichen in Bronze mit Etui

(SA-Sportabzeichen in Bronze mit Etui und Verleihungsurkunde)

The collar is flanked on each side by tabs constructed of dark blue wool with buckram cores

measures 70 mm (w) x 133 mm (h)

ring suspension and ribbon

MEYER NEW YORK

Germany, Third Reich. A Customs and Border Service Decoration Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (SA-Sportabzeichen in Bronze mit Etui(Zollgrenzschutz Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 17 February 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central oak leaf wreath surrounding an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTEIM ZOLLGRENZSCHUTZ (FOR FAITHFUL