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<blockquote data-quote="Bhargrin" data-source="post: 2223793" data-attributes="member: 30377"><p>That is a beautiful yet rare find, representing one of the many troubled times in history. This is a schutzstaffle standard bearers gorget post 1938 model. This model was commissioned after the fall of the SA and assassination of SA leader Earnst Rohm, which led to what was called the "Night of the Crystal", and the destruction of many Jewish store fronts and businesses. Leaving the streets covered in broken glass. Against the reflection of the moonlight sparkled like crystal, hence the name "Night of the Crystal."</p><p></p><p> In Hitlers grand scheme of gaining power he eliminated a major obstacle before him, his boss the leader of the SA party Earnst Rohm, following the assassination the SS party was quick to blame the Jewish community even providing the body of the claimed Jewish assasin, leading to the night of rioting and attacking anything Jewish by the German people.</p><p></p><p> Until 1938, SS standard bearers wore the SA/SS Kornet gorget. In September 1938, at the 'Reichsparteitag Großdeutschland', a new pattern gorget, designed specifically for the SS, was introduced in which the SA runes were removed. This large and imposing gorget features a unique, massive, antique silver finished eagle mounted on the smoked silver shield. The shield bosses feature raised SS runes, and the reverse of the gorget retains its original light green wool backing. The gorget tang on the reverse is marked 'RZM M1/128', which is the maker's code for Eugen Schmidhäussler of Pforzheim. This company also made the Political Leaders standard bearer gorget. This is a beautiful and striking gorget, produced in relatively small numbers, and rarely found today. </p><p></p><p>I would recommend you get this appraised as is. The last one I saw at auction that was complete and in excellent condition sold for over $8k. A word of caution, do not try and clean this piece leave the patina alone. So many times people try to clean an artifact only to destroy its value. I agree with the previous post you have a nice museum piece.</p><p></p><p>There is a market for such items but it is somewhat niche specific. You will find those who enjoy history will be very interested in such a beautiful piece. To many times, people of limited education just get hung-up on the representation instead of the historical significance of a piece.</p><p></p><p>In today's history, we only teach of the 6 million Jews murdered by the NAZI party. However, if you look deeper at the era you will find the NAZI party actually murdered over 18 million people. Add to that the 42 million murdered by the Russians under Stalin, and you can quickly see the times were very dark. Of course, we do not speak of those murdered by the Russian communist party due to the simple fact they were allies at the time.</p><p></p><p>Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.</p><p>George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905</p><p></p><p>On the knife are there any markings?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bhargrin, post: 2223793, member: 30377"] That is a beautiful yet rare find, representing one of the many troubled times in history. This is a schutzstaffle standard bearers gorget post 1938 model. This model was commissioned after the fall of the SA and assassination of SA leader Earnst Rohm, which led to what was called the "Night of the Crystal", and the destruction of many Jewish store fronts and businesses. Leaving the streets covered in broken glass. Against the reflection of the moonlight sparkled like crystal, hence the name "Night of the Crystal." In Hitlers grand scheme of gaining power he eliminated a major obstacle before him, his boss the leader of the SA party Earnst Rohm, following the assassination the SS party was quick to blame the Jewish community even providing the body of the claimed Jewish assasin, leading to the night of rioting and attacking anything Jewish by the German people. Until 1938, SS standard bearers wore the SA/SS Kornet gorget. In September 1938, at the 'Reichsparteitag Großdeutschland', a new pattern gorget, designed specifically for the SS, was introduced in which the SA runes were removed. This large and imposing gorget features a unique, massive, antique silver finished eagle mounted on the smoked silver shield. The shield bosses feature raised SS runes, and the reverse of the gorget retains its original light green wool backing. The gorget tang on the reverse is marked 'RZM M1/128', which is the maker's code for Eugen Schmidhäussler of Pforzheim. This company also made the Political Leaders standard bearer gorget. This is a beautiful and striking gorget, produced in relatively small numbers, and rarely found today. I would recommend you get this appraised as is. The last one I saw at auction that was complete and in excellent condition sold for over $8k. A word of caution, do not try and clean this piece leave the patina alone. So many times people try to clean an artifact only to destroy its value. I agree with the previous post you have a nice museum piece. There is a market for such items but it is somewhat niche specific. You will find those who enjoy history will be very interested in such a beautiful piece. To many times, people of limited education just get hung-up on the representation instead of the historical significance of a piece. In today's history, we only teach of the 6 million Jews murdered by the NAZI party. However, if you look deeper at the era you will find the NAZI party actually murdered over 18 million people. Add to that the 42 million murdered by the Russians under Stalin, and you can quickly see the times were very dark. Of course, we do not speak of those murdered by the Russian communist party due to the simple fact they were allies at the time. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 On the knife are there any markings? [/QUOTE]
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