1st Pattern Blood Order Medal for sale with original 'buttonhole' ribbon and comprehensive document copies.  The 1st Pattern Blood Order Medal  numbered '582,' impressed with the '990' silver content, and  maker-name 'J.Feuss München.'

The obverse to the Blood Order Medal with relief eagle, the reverse, with the swastika image over the Feldherrnhalle monument. The Blood Order Medal with its original silk ribbon with buttonhole, and golden, SA tunic-button attached.

Condition report: The Blood Order Medal toned with age and with some original anodised finish remaining to the recessed areas. The silk ribbon showing use and general wear particularly around the buttonhole and leading edge.

Note: The 1st pattern Blood Order number '582' was issued to Hans Zimmermann, a member of the elite 'SA Regiment München.' Zimmermann later became a Political Leader within the NSDAP, and continued his membership of the SA.

Less than 1500 1st pattern Blood Order Medals were issued.

Additional note: The Medal sale includes Zimmermann's Blood Order citation (photocopies) and numerous Blood Order-related documents (photocopies).

Provenance: Zimmermann's Blood Order Medal '582', documents and citation, were purchased from the Zimmermnn family in the 1970s by the respected German document collector, Kay Max Brüggemann. Brüggemann, (who was not a medal collector), later sold the Blood Order, but maintained the documents for his collection.

When the author-publisher, Klaus Patzwall, was writing, Das Ehrenzeichen Vom 9. November 1923, he asked Brüggemann if  he could include selected Blood Order documents in the book. Amongst others, Brüggemann allowed several  Hans Zimmermann Blood Order documents to be published. The documents feature on pages 4, 6, 14, 27, 29.*

The 1st pattern Blood Order Medal consigned for sale is fresh to-the-market, having been in just two collections since the 1970s.

* Published 1982.