Heer Officer/NCO Silver Breast Eagle(G)
Price: $110
BUY / RESERVE THIS ITEMDescription: (Hoheitsabzeichen); High quality national breast eagle,combination machine embroidered in bright silver gray cotton having added hand-embroidered, silver/aluminum bullion wire accent threads mounted on a cut out dark blue/green badge cloth base.Unique Combination; Mint condition.
Reference: The German army originally adopted a slightly modified version of the NSDAP’s, national eagle by order February 1934, with instructions to have it applied to all steel helmets, visor caps, and tunics by May 1934. Later amendments to the introductory order stipulated that the national eagle was also to be worn on all field caps, the sports uniform and the black panzer wrap. The eagle came in three distinct designs with two having slightly different out stretched wings and the third with down swept wings. Generally Officer’s ranks utilized hand or machine embroidered silver-wire breast eagles while EM/NCO’s ranks utilized machine embroidered or machine woven breast eagles. During the war the breast eagles were manufactured in a variety of slightly different manufacturing techniques and colorations.
