A most attractive and rare silver commemorative badge given by Gauleiter of Gau Dusseldorf Friedrich-Karl Florian (1894-1975), a silver-framed agate badge reading in relief on the bezel: 'Westmarkfahrt 1938 Alte Garde' The bezel surrounds a piece of striated brown agate with an applied silver swastika. The reverse bears an attachment pin and purity stamp '830'. mark of fineness "835" at back. The 'Altegarde', or 'old guard' is a term referring to the earliest members of the Nazi Party, i.e. those who joined it before the Reichstag 1930 German federal election, with many belonging to the party as early as its first foundation in 1919–1923. These men were Hitler's most ardent early supporters. Excessively rare.