Superb - and scarcely found! - WH (Heeres) so-called: trade- and/or special-career arm-insignia as was intended for a: 'Festungspionier-Feldwebel' (being a neatly hand-embroidered 'variant' that comes mounted onto field-grey-coloured wool)

This is a truly attractive - and actually very scarcely encountered! - example of a WH (Heeres) so-called: trade- and/or special-career arm-insignia (or: 'Laufbahn- o. Tätigkeitsabzeichen') as was specifically intended for an army: 'Festungspionier-Feldwebel' (or: fortification-construction NCO ie. sergeant) and that comes in an overall very nice- (I deem never worn- nor tunic-attached-) condition. The neat patch is executed on a field-grey-coloured- and/or typical woolen-based background and shows the (detailed and/or neatly hand-embroidered) 'FP'-characters as executed in bright-yellow-coloured linnen. The neatly maker- (ie. 'Friedrich Schiller'-) marked patch is nicely 'backed' and shows some minimal staining simply caused by decades of storage only (as can be seen on the pictures). This is actually the later ie. replacement version for the early-pattern badge (that read: 'FB' or: 'Festungsbaufeldwebel'). This particular example originated from a larger cloth- and/or shoulderstrap-collection I recently acquired for the web-site. Simply a very attractive WH (Heeres) trade-/specialist badge: one the of the more difficult examples of the series to encounter!