Germany, Third Reich. A Baden Singing Association Membership Pin, By Eugen Schmidhäussler Newly Listed with navy blue braided shoulder

with navy blue braided shoulder boards sewn in place

loop for suspension from its period original ribbon

Black celluloid plates with eleven rows of gold-coloured springy wire in the recesses of the ribbed grip

White porcelain hand-painted in brown

circumscribing the firm’s classic logo of squirrel clutching a sword

Germany, Third Reich. A Baden Singing Association Membership Pin, By Eugen Schmidhäussler Newly Listed with navy blue braided shoulder(Badischer Sngerbund Mitgliedsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of a Baden national griffin clutching an instrument, above a raised inscription of BADISCHER SNGERBUND (BADEN SINGING ASSOCIATION), flanked by a swastika, the reverse maker marked SCHMIDHUSSLER, PFORZHEIM, retaining a period original ribbon backer, measuring 23 mm (w) x 20 mm (h) (exclusive of ribbon), in extremely fine condition.