BACKGROUND: The RBA, "Reichsbetriebszellenabteilung" (National-trade-cells-department), was founded in January of 1931 and was renamed the NSBO, "Nationalsozialische Betriebszellen Organisierung" (National-socialist Trade-cells Organization), in March of that year. This organization acted as the NSDAP’s alternative to labor unions and communist worker groups in industrial factories. Officially a national organization, the NSBO was concentrated in the heavy industrial centers, with very little representation outside these areas. The NSBO was absorbed into the DAF, "Deutsche Arbeitsfront" (German Labor-front), in October of 1934, and ceased to exist in March of 1935.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A 3 7/8" x 4 1/8" white rayon patch, to whose upper left is woven "Ges. Gesch.," for "Gesetzlich Geschützt" (By-law Protected), and to whose center is machine woven the 3 3/8" diameter white background to a black NSBO emblem. The emblem is in the form of, to the right, a disembodied hand holding upright a hammer with a static swastika to its head, with a partial cogged wheel proceeding to the left, against which is "N.S.B.O." in white. Light age soiling is evident throughout, but the patch does not appear to have been used.

GRADE ****                             PRICE $117.00