Italy, Kingdom. A Twentieth Anniversary Combatants Meeting At Rome Medal 1938 Newly Listed Reverse of armband has a

Reverse of armband has a machine stitched vertical seam

Bronx / New York / U

Mertsch won the German Cross in Gold in September 1943 and would go on to be the artillery commander of  XIII SS-Armeekorps and finished the war commanding a Kampfgruppe in Czechoslovakia

a single piece construction in zinc alloy

Italy, Kingdom. A Twentieth Anniversary Combatants Meeting At Rome Medal 1938 Newly Listed Reverse of armband has aIn bronze gilt, obverse illustrating an upward pointing bayonet and a branch of oak leaves fronted by a helmet, surrounded by the inscription "ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE COMBATTENTI" and engraver marked "S. A. PAGANI", reverse illustrating a floating female warrior, a sword in her right hand, above a cluster of Italian flags, engraver marked "MISTRVZZI", inscribed "ADUNATA NAZ PER IL VENTENNALE DELLA VITTORIA" above and "ROMA 4 NOV 1938 XVII" below,