Germany, NSDAP. A Standard Bearer’s Gorget, by Matthias Oechsler & Söhne Republic of representing the Franconia electoral district

representing the Franconia electoral district and continued thus to the end of World War II

Socialist Federal Republic Orders: Order of Merit to the People

42 mm (w) x 66

azure blue cloth cover

awarded from Headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Luftwaffe on 1 September 1942

Germany, NSDAP. A Standard Bearer’s Gorget, by Matthias Oechsler & Söhne Republic of representing the Franconia electoral district(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 both gorget clips and two chain links