Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, by Rudolf Souval Buy Now with some tarnishing evident

with some tarnishing evident

the obverse with a red machine-embroidered Organisation Todt insignia

set on a 60 mm-long zink bar with a maroon wool reverse liner and horizontal pinback

a Letter From the War Office in London (informing his parents in Johannesburg of their son's award of the Military Cross

bearing a raised Arrow Cross overlaid by a skull and crossbones

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, by Rudolf Souval Buy Now with some tarnishing evident(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with four side prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a variant attributed to Rudolf Souval, Vienna, the shield measuring 52. 85 mm (w)