Germany, Heer. A Cavalry/Reconnaissance Standard Bearer’s Sleeve Insignia
(Abzeichen der Fahnen- und Standartenträger). Constructed of a field-grey cotton blend, the obverse bearing a central machine-embroidered dark blue Heer-style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with feathering highlighted in silver-grey threading, flanked on each side by machine-embroidered multi-coloured standards in golden-yellow Cavalry/Reconnaissance Waffenfarbe, with details highlighted in silver aluminum wire, above an oak leaf branch also constructed of silver aluminum wire, unmarked, measuring 112 mm (w) x 135 mm (h), moderate soiling is evident throughout the obverse, in overall very fine condition.

