WOW!!!!
Hard evidence at last!
Yeah, I reckon LOTs of people are reading this thread, but as usual, only a few of us have put the pieces together or dug around in the archives.
Near as we can tell outright annual awards ended in 1943.
there is a tantalizing Rubric order regarding Partei Abzeichen awards @ March 1943 in the Fuhrer decrees Index summary, but so far I have been unable to obtain the actual text.
RR may have a few more tidbits and has some Gau listings of awardees. I think He got one of them from you Joe.
I hesitate to write more because last time we started off on a tangent like this prices exploded.