WW2 GERMAN NAZI RARE NSKOV (National Socialist War-disabled-support [Organization]) VISOR CAP PIN WITH IRON CROSS & SWASTIKA

BACKGROUND: The NSKOV, "National Sozialistische Kriegsopferversorung" (National Socialist War-disabled-support [Organization]), was formed in 1930 and institutionalized in 1933, as an associated society assisting NSDAP party members who had become disabled as a result of war injuries. This form of cap badge was used between 1937 and 1940, those after 1940 having a right-facing eagle.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A stamped alloy visor cap badge, approximately 50mm square, in the form of a stylized eagle with down-swept wings, clutching "NSKOV" in its talons, and with that organization's emblem superimposed to its breast. The emblem is comprised of a black mobile swastika within a circle bordered in red, the circle set against a black Iron Cross, and the Iron Cross set against a vertical sword, which has an oval oak leaf wreath surrounding it. All three original pins are complete to the reverse.