Fall 2026 Militaria and Aviation Auction
Lot 213:
Description
SA Sports Badge pair with 1938 test booklet – Joh. Ritter. Two SA-Sportabzeichen and the official 1938 handbook, the cover signed in ink Joh. Ritter. The pamphlet-Der Weg zum SA-Sportabzeichen. Ausfuehrungs- und Pruefungsbestimmungen, Ausgabe 1938-is the printed rulebook for the fitness tests: run, jump, throw, swim or march, and fieldcraft. Hitler authorized the badge in November 1933 as the Sturmabteilung’s physical standard; by the late 1930s it was the mass sports award of the movement, issued in bronze, silver and gold according to score and age. Both badges here are the regulation type: oak wreath, upright sword, mobile swastika. One, gilt, is by Bonner Kunstabzeichen, marked EIGENTUM D. CHEFS D. AUSBILDUNGSWESENS and BEDARF BONN/RH, serial 106458. The other, silvered, is by L. Schneider, Luedenscheid, marked HAUPTSTELLE and SA SPORTABZ., serial 656649. A third reverse in the photos is heavily rusted, pin still present. Booklet toned and soft at the edges; badges with honest wear, one corroded, pins complete. A named set of the SA sports qualification-the booklet that set the tests and two numbered awards from the authorized makers.
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