Germany, Third Reich. A Postwar Allied Occupation Police Armband Newly Listed constructed of heavy pressed paper

constructed of heavy pressed paper with a brown lightly textured faux leather (leatherette) exterior

measuring 77 mm (w) x 21 mm (h)

By the end of August

Includes two pieces fabricated from tortoise shell

when on line patrol west of Douai at about 10

Germany, Third Reich. A Postwar Allied Occupation Police Armband Newly Listed constructed of heavy pressed paper(Polizei Armband). Constructed of white cotton, the exterior bearing a black dyed inscription of M. G. M. R. and POLICE POLIZEI, unmarked, measuring 19 cm (w) x 11. 5 cm (h) when folded on a flat surface, with minor soiling evident, a classic example of an identifying insignia worn by police personnel in immediate postwar Allied occupied Germany c. 1945 1946, in extremely fine condition.