Germany, Federal Republic. An Anti-Partisan Badge, Gold Grade Collector’s Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1980 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac gilt wear evident on the

gilt wear evident on the coat-of-arms

arriving in the French theatre on the 29th and posted to the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp on the 30th

vertical pinback with four rivets on the reverse

Only forty-four had been issued to Canadians

a Freikorps Minenwerfer Abteilung Heuschkel sleeve insignia

Germany, Federal Republic. An Anti-Partisan Badge, Gold Grade Collector’s Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1980 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac gilt wear evident on the(Bandenkampfabzeichen in Gold, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by an additional cluster of oak leaves defaced by a raised skull and crossbones, overlaid by a sword bearing a sunwheel style mobile swastika, plunging into a hydra, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a