290 SS - Streifendienst Gorget.

Made of polished nickel-plated brass. The inscription band anodised in gold. The blackened medallion with silver SS runes and silver rim. Gold-coloured anodised decorative buttons at the corners.

Back with black cloth cover and soldered eyelet and hook for attaching the chain. In the centre additional carrying hook with maker's mark: "SS 140 RZM" of the firm Leopold Klein Witwe, Vienna.

On original nickel-plated brass carrying chain.

This original gorget offered here is illustrated and described in the well-known standard work by Wilhelm Saris and Andrew Mollo: Ringkragen und Brustschilder im Dritten Reich, Zweibrücken 2012, p. 396.

Very nice, perfectly preserved original example.

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