Netherlands, NSB. A Weerbaarheidsafdeling Sleeve Insignia Newly Listed Official awarded Paratrooper's qualification wings

Official awarded Paratrooper's qualification wings

original ribbon with Overseas Clasp

measuring 110 mm x 275 mm

just shy of his fortieth birthday

maker marked "PV" on the screwback)

Netherlands, NSB. A Weerbaarheidsafdeling Sleeve Insignia Newly Listed Official awarded Paratrooper's qualification wingsConstructed of black wool, the obverse overlaid by a black and red bicolour triangle, bearing a hand embroidered gold bullion wire Wolfsangel, surrounded by a border executed in identical gold bullion wire hand embroidery, the reverse retaining a fully intact black cotton twill backer, unmarked, measuring 70 mm (w) x 60 mm (h), an exceptionally well preserved example of a sleeve insignia worn by personnel of the Weerbaarheidsafdeling (WA, or