Germany, Ddas. A German Automobile Club Personnel Armband GTRexclude 1894 in Birmingham

1894 in Birmingham

one on each breast and one at the waist on both sides

white shows between the litzen

maker marked “Otto Schickle

so big that a man could stand upright inside it

Germany, Ddas. A German Automobile Club Personnel Armband GTRexclude 1894 in Birmingham(Der Deutsche Automobil Club Armband). Constructed of black wool, the exterior bearing a German Automobile Club (DDAC) insignia in the form of a central black German national eagle, overlaid by an inscription of D. D. A. C., clutching a ringed mobile swastika, and set within a tri colour border, the insignia measuring 68 mm (w) x 82 mm (h) overall, unstitched and unmarked, measuring 370 mm (l) x 105 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.