Truly used - and/or unsually confectioned! - RAD (ie. 'Reichsarbeitsdienst') officers'-pattern sleeve-badge (or: 'Dienststellenabzeichen') bearing the specialist- ie. unit-designation: '314/3'

This is an attractive - fairly unusually confectioned and actually not that easily encountered! - officers'-version of a so-called: RAD (ie. 'Reichsarbeitsdienst') sleeve-badge (or: 'Dienststellen-Abzeichen für Offiziere des Reichsarbeitsdienstes') bearing the specialist- ie. unit-unit-designation that reads: '314/3' (as was presumably intended for a RAD senior-official who served within the 314th district ie. 'Bezirk') and that comes in an overall very nice- (ie. just minimally used- ie. once tunic-attached-), condition. These attractive arm-badges were worn on the upper left sleeve of the mustard-coloured (officers'-type-) RAD-tunics and/or garments. The badge - which shows the red-coloured '314/3'-numerals - is neatly executed in so-called 'flat-wire'-like 'BeVo'-weave technique and was as such intended for an officer who served within the 314th district ie. 'Bezirk'. The piece was carefully pre-folded ie. trimmed and was (period) attached onto a carton-based (and covered) backing (that still retains a pair of of safety-pins intended to easily attach and/or remove the piece from a tunic). It should be noted that all RAD officers'-type badges are comparatively scarcely encountered: even more so when they are neatly pre-confectioned as the specimen on offer!