Wwii Army Racing Team Oap Badge - Third Class Badge certificate_of_authenticity while reverse illustrates two hemispheric

while reverse illustrates two hemispheric globes with broken chains

unmarked but known to have been manufactured by Maybee's

Arthus-Bertrand made

numbered "9405"

Wwii Army Racing Team Oap Badge - Third Class Badge certificate_of_authenticity while reverse illustrates two hemisphericWWII Army Racing Team OAP Badge Third Class Badge, in bronze and enamels, 35 mm x 47 mm, pinback, with single small chip out of enamelled triangle, very fine. Rare. Footnote: The badge was created in the fall of 1940 by the OAP organization and awarded at the bequest and orders of the Minister of Defence, January 21, 1941. Units of sport date back to 1940 with the creation of a football (soccer) team, then a hockey team and other sports sections