Hi Brett, & welcome to the HJ forum. What you show is the "
run of the mill"
HJ achievement badge. It is original without question, but a standard one with a relatively high number, issued possibly around 1936/7. Nonetheless, it looks like it is in good condition, and going by the normal collectors market, i would value it at around U$D85-100.- depending on where you shop. Sorry if the wording "run of the mill" sound a tad negative, that`s just because i too collect these badges, but i go for the first versions, with low numbers in the 2 and three digit range. Saying that, i have seen your "
even-later-even-more-run-of-the-even-older-mill"
achievement badges, with 6 digit numbers up on dealers sites for U$D 145-200.- so i guess... beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Your avatar is a pic taken in early 1925 by H.Hoffmann, just before, or slightly after, Hitler restarted the NSDAP. There was a series/strip of these made in the same room, with him in slightly diff. positions, they can be found in a
book called "Hitlers Library" See him trying to blend in, trying to be a real "Münchner":swiss