Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, With Rare Award Document For The Italian Campaign, By Förster & Barth United Republic of Pinned into the tunic above

Pinned into the tunic above the top left breast pocket is a medal ribbon bar featuring four medals

Footnote: The Order of the People's Army was instituted in 1952 as a military award for partisans who fought the Axis Forces during the Second World War

with fold-down side and back panels with aggressively sloping downward scallops towards the front

the reverse with a Russian Cyrillic inscription of “ПОБѢ-ДИТЕЛЯМЪ ПРИ МИРѢ ДЕКАБРЯ 29 1791” (“TO THE VICTORIOUS PEACE DECEMBER 29 1791”)

nearly extremely fine and rare

Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, With Rare Award Document For The Italian Campaign, By Förster & Barth United Republic of Pinned into the tunic above(Heeres Flak Abzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of a semi hollow variation produced