Germany, Luftwaffe. A Krim Shield Auction Archive 60 mm (w) x 48

60 mm (w) x 48

obverse with an enamelled Canadian coat-of-arms surmounted by a crown

Norway: (JARNKROSS-RIKSPOLITIETS HEDERSTEGN) Three-piece construction

when he was wounded during an aerial combat and invalided back to Britain

It completes with a gilded bronze pommel in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Krim Shield Auction Archive 60 mm (w) x 48(Luftwaffe Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with an intact wax paper backer and dark grey wool liner indicating Luftwaffe issue, unmarked, the shield measuring 54. 98 mm (w) x 61. 93 mm