Between the World Wars

ARTIFACT: This is a beautifully enameled circa 1930s member lapel pin for the National Recovery Act (NRA). The pin is from T. A. Clarke Motors, Inc. of Pawtucket, Rhode Island and reads WE DO OUR PART. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: Approximately 3/4" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful bronze US Marine Corps belt buckle from the 1930s with great detail to the design. VINTAGE: Circa 1930's. SIZE: About 2-1/" in length by 1-1/4" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Bronze with red and blue enameling...

ARTIFACT: 1935 Nazi Tinny reads: "GAUTAG der N. S. D. A. P. WESTFALEN SUD" along the top of the stamped coppered steel tinny, which features an eagle clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, the eagles wings are slightly open and below it reads:...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1934 SA (Sturmabteilung) Brigade 44 tinnie from Wartburgstadt, Eisenach. The tall, nicely designed tinnie shows a bricked wall having a swastika for a gate with the village of Eisenach, the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach,...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1936 tinnie for Hitler Youth Festival Day (Jugendfest). "Hitler Youth" was initially an organization formed to groom teenagers as anti-Semites, but during the War the Youths became fair game to restore depleted military manpower. The...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1935 tinnie reading GAU-THING from the towns of Koblenz and Trier. The "thing", or assembly, being commemorated took place June 22-23, 193The badge has a great design with an eagle at the to of a grooved oval. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1933 Weimar Gautagung tinnie, marking a meeting of the NSDAP/ Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpart (National Socialist German Workers'or Nazi Party). The tinnie reads GAUTAGUNG BEAMTEN-ABTLG. D. NSDAP 23.u24.9 1933...

ARTIFACT: Rare 1930 Graf Zeppelin Landing at Bonn-Hangelar Souvenir Badge Tinnie. Still has paper manufacturer's label.It reads:ERINNERUNG AN DIEERSTE LANDUNG DES"GRAF ZEPPELIN"BONN-HANGELAR1930 VINTAGE: Circa 1930. SIZE: Approximately 1-3/8" in width ...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1938 SA-Gruppe Bayer Ostmark Sports Competition Tinnie. VINTAGE: 1938 SIZE: About 1-5/8" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Stamped brass. ATTACHMENT: Horizontal safety-type pin with a "C" catch and saddle to attach pin to...

ARTIFACT: This is an October 1936 tinnie for a NSDAP, or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers'or Nazi Party), Kreistreffen (group meeting) at Minden. The tinnie is in beautiful inlaid Bakelite and shows a...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful 1933 tinnie for the Nazionalsozialistische Flugwoche Furth (National Socialist Week of Flight at Fürth). This week in 1933 coincided with Pentecost (Pfingsten). The tinnie is in bronze and shows an aircraft flying diagonally...

ARTIFACT: This is an August 1936 Nazi tinnie from Detmold for a NSKOV (Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung) rally. NSKOV was largely a veteran's aid organization known as the National Socialist War Victim's Care. The tinnie shows a figure with a...