Germany, SS. A Waffen-SS Officer’s Runic Collar Tab Hold Footnote: Trans World Airlines (TWA)

Footnote: Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline that existed from 1930 until 2001

A smooth synthetic all-weather track was used for the first time at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and at every Games thereafter

measuring 80 mm (w) x 103 mm (h))

the reverse with an inscription of “REICHSVERBAND FÜR ZUCHT UND PRÜFUNG DEUTSCHEN WARMBLUTS” (“REICH ASSOCIATION FOR BREEDING AND TRAINING OF GERMAN HORSES”)

while the blade sits securely within a gilded bronze crossguard which bears double-sided central fouled anchors

Germany, SS. A Waffen-SS Officer’s Runic Collar Tab Hold Footnote: Trans World Airlines (TWA)(Waffen SS Kragenspiegel fr einen Offizier). Constructed of black doeskin with a buckram core, trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, and bearing hand embroidered dual Sig runes executed in silver aluminum wire, unmarked, measuring 40 mm (w) x 55 mm (l), demonstrating minor fatigue to the wire of the runes and some loosening of the piping, in uniform removed and near extremely fine condition.