DRK nurses'-badge entitled: 'Schwesternschaft' being a scarcely found, oval-shaped version showing a bearers'-number: ('48'), towns-name: ('Karlsruhe') and/or makers'-mark ('A. Stübbe - Berlin')

This is an attractive - and actually fairly rarely encountered! - neatly enamelled- and untouched albeit missing its catch! - so-called: DRK (ie. 'Deutsches Rotes Kreuz' or: German Red Cross) nurses'-badge entitled: 'Schwesternschaft' being a desirable oval-shaped-version showing an engraved very (low!) bearers'-number (that reads: '48') and/or: towns'- (ie. hospital-name) that reads: 'Karlsruhe' and that comes in an overall very nice- (albeit moderately worn- and regrettably incomplete-), condition. The piece was (I deem) only moderately worn and is totally void of any enamel-damage and just shows some regular wear and does show some minor scratches ie. wear-marks but was never denazified or alike (as can be seen on the pictures). The lapel-pin shows a clear makers'-designation (that reads: 'A.Stubbe - Berlin') and is engraved with a (unique, quite low) bearers'-number that reads: '48'. The badge most certainly belonged to a nurse that worked in a hospital or clinic based in the town of Karlsruhe (something that is obvious due to the encountered engraving). The badge comes naturally mounted onto its functional pin but misses (most) of its catch. A similar badge is also figured in the 'Heering-Hüsken' lapel-pin-catalogue, were it is given the unique reference-number: 5613XG. The badge on offer here was never cleaned and shows an attractive (darker- ie. tarnished, silver-coloured-) patina on its back. This is the desirable oval-shaped version (having an approximate width of 4,7 cms.). Simply an attractive and honest example of this desirable DRK 'Schwesternschaft'-lapel-pin that is with certainty not that often offered for sale: I deem that I have priced it according to its still nicely preserved and fully untouched condition!