Availability: Common
This eagle style is one of the earliest designs and is heavily influenced by pre-1933 eagles of Germany. The style is the same as the one from the masthead of the party newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter. The eagles were cast in brass or bronze before the war, and because of wartime copper use restrictions, iron after the war started. Those with the stands were displayed in the windows of shops where the VB was sold, and those without (some were cast with a solid, flat back) were used as paperweights on the stacks of VB sold in outdoor newspaper kiosks.
The style is found in several implementations
Materials:
- Nickel plated iron
- Brass/bronze
- Enamelled
Size: Approx 9.5″ wide x 7.75″ inches high (23.5 by 19.5 cm)
Makers:
Makers marked version: L87 – 43:
A Luck maker marked version:
Inspiration for this design came from the German Imperial eagles such as below.
Reproductions:
Note: The desk stand version is heavily reproduced. An example catalog from a seller of reproductions is shown below:
