Germany, Hj. A Numbered Leader’s Sports Badge, By Gustav Brehmer Hold and a large convex bowl

and a large convex bowl

Prior to being shipped off

the obverse presents a German national eagle clutching a wreathed swastika

the obverse with a central medallion bearing a lion rampant circumscribed by an inscription of “L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE” (“UNITY IS STRENGTH”)

He became Austrian nobility in February 1911 and assumed the title of Elder von Schnek shortly after his promotion to General Major on May 11th 1911

Germany, Hj. A Numbered Leader’s Sports Badge, By Gustav Brehmer Hold and a large convex bowl(Fhrer Sportabzeichen der HJ). Constructed of bronze with enamels, the obverse consisting of a Sig rune overlaid by a mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR LEISTUNGEN IN DER H. J. (FOR MERIT IN THE H. J.), on top of a black enameled disk within a round laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, marked with an issue number of 3456, a Reichszeugmeisterei insignia, and a makers