Baden Gau Badge 800 Marked

Product Description: This Baden Gau Badge 800 Marked is an outstanding example of a scarce political award. The obverse design is very attractive, with an art deco style German eagle and swastika emblem within a wreath, at the bottom of which is the wording “Gau Baden.” This badge shows virtually no wear, and retains about 98 percent of the original surface finish. It has great, even luster, and only extremely slight age toning. The reverse of this rare badge is flat and smooth. It’s nicely maker marked behind the swastika, with “Fr. Klett, Karlsruhe.” This is a real silver badge, and is marked “800” behind the wreath, a typical German grade of 80 percent pure silver. The hardware setup on this badge features an interesting narrow hinge and “safety pin” style catch. The round wire pin is functional, and there is no damage and no repairs. The condition of this Baden Gau Badge 800 Marked is a strong excellent. It’s a choice piece, that would be very hard to upgrade.

Historical Description: The Nazi Party was organized geographically into districts. Below the national “Reich” level were the “Gau” districts. They were the Nazi era administrative equivalent of traditional German states. The leadership of each Gau was authorized to award special badges, to recognize a variety of achievements in the political realm. The exact requirements for each award were determined by the leader of each Gau and could range from outstanding service to the local political organization, to long service to the Party, or participation in important historic events during the Party’s time of struggle before 1933. Some Gau badges were issued in several grades to recognize different levels of experience or achievement. These badges were worn on military, and civilian, uniforms and were a mark of honor for the Nazi political elite. Twelve different Gau Honor Badges were designed for the 33 (later 43) Gau districts of Nazi Germany. They were carefully designed with impressive designs to denote the high levels of achievement for which they were awarded, and the quality of these badges is generally extremely high. These were awarded in limited numbers, and as a result, none of the Gau Honor Badge types are commonly encountered today.

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