Germany, SA. A 1939 SA-Gruppe Hochland Winter Sports Games Merit Plaque, with Case Newly Listed the most successful surviving pilot

the most successful surviving pilot and a recipient of the Pour le Mérite

The frame holds in place a leather liner with a core consisting of coarse animal hairs

A civilian band member’s buckle

and when fed through the strap on the right side

Germany, SA. A 1939 SA-Gruppe Hochland Winter Sports Games Merit Plaque, with Case Newly Listed the most successful surviving pilot(Sturmabteilung Winterkampfspiele Plakette mit Etui). Constructed of a silvered bronze alloy, the obverse consisting of a disc bearing a central pair of skis overlaid by a German national eagle clutching an SA Gruppe Hochland insignia in the form of an edelweiss defaced by an SA logo, flanked by an inscription of DER FHRER DER SA GRUPPE HOCHLAND (THE LEADER OF SA GRUPPE HOCHLAND), in turn circumscribed by an inscription of NS WINTERKAMPFSPIELE VILLACH