Germany, SA. A Sports Badge, Gold Grade, Type III by Richard Sieper & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic by Floyd Gibbons

by Floyd Gibbons

measuring 60 mm (h) x 40 mm (w)

with the only fully-legible stamped reading “JR23” for Infanterie-Regiment 23

England and France and entitled to wear the War Service Badges

Germany, SA. A Sports Badge, Gold Grade, Type III by Richard Sieper & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic by Floyd Gibbons(SA Sportabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a central mobile swastika overlaid by a sword, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked R. SIEPER & SHNE, LDENSCHEID, measuring 45. 27 mm (w) x 58. 04 mm (h), weighing 17. 6 grams, demonstrating minor loss of finish throughout the base metal, a Type III badge in near