Attractive - and typical zinc- ie. 'Feinzink'-based - 'Polizei'- (ie. police) eagle-badge being a silverish-grey-coloured- and/or non-maker-marked example depicting the text: 'Landwacht'

This is an attractive example of a detailed - and typical zinc- ie. 'Feinzink'-based - 'Polizei'- (ie. police) eagle-badge (as was intended for usage on a field-cap) being a silverish-grey-coloured- and/or non-maker-marked example depicting the text: 'Landwacht' and that comes in an overall very nice- (I deem hardly used- ie. 'virtually mint- ie. unissued'-), condition. The detailed badge is executed in bright-silver-coloured zinc-based metal and shows a period-attached (and still functional) 'clip' on its back. The detail on the mininially stained (but never cleaned) piece is quite extraordinary: it just shows some minimal dust ie. tarnish simply caused by decades of storage only. In January 1942, the 'Reichsführer-SS' Heinrich Himmler in his position as: 'Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern' (ie. Chief of the German Police in the National Ministry of the Interior) established a new police-related service to be called: the 'Landwacht' (or: land-watch guard-troops) to be utilised in guarding prisoners of war when on work outside of the prisons ie. POW-camps but within the borders of the greater German Reich. The 'Landwacht' staff-members were outfitted with standard-pattern 'Gendarmerie' (ie. rural police) police uniforms with a distinctive identifying armband and cap-badge (such as the one on offer here). Hard to find a more attractive example for a more interesting price!