Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield Newly Listed 1943 at Kunming

1943 at Kunming

measuring 35 mm (w) x 75 ½ mm (h)

He later served with the No

mounted to a sixteen-pointed silver star base

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield Newly Listed 1943 at Kunming(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, secured with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool reverse liner indicating Heer issue, unmarked, the shield measuring 52. 40 mm (w) x 61. 40 mm (h), with oxidation