Germany, Sa. A 1931 Sa Braunschweig Meeting Badge By Wächtler & Lange Auction Footnote: Benjamin Franklin Fairclough was

Footnote: Benjamin Franklin Fairclough was born in Winnipeg in 1893 and was working as a Mechanist in Winnipeg prior to being recuited in April 1918

member of the NSDAP and leader of the Staabswache (Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard unit) resurrected the Totenkopf from when it was used during the interwar period of the Freikorps

with later period (1953) Dutch testing silver mark of fineness 835 on the integral ring

Footnote: The Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging/National Socialist Movement was founded by Anton  Mussert in December of 1931

Germany, Sa. A 1931 Sa Braunschweig Meeting Badge By Wächtler & Lange Auction Footnote: Benjamin Franklin Fairclough was(SA Treffen Braunschweig Abzeichen). Constructed of zink, vertical pinback, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, tied together at the bottom by a bowtie, topped by a SA style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with a central inscription of SA TREFFEN BRAUNSCHWEIG 17. OKTOBER 1931, the reverse with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and maker code M1 35 for Wchtler & Lange, Mittweida, measuring 36. 52 mm (w) x 52.