Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield Auction Archive He was later promoted to

He was later promoted to Corporal while in the French theatre

with its original tie-ribbon fastened to a celluloid button and a Hindenburg Cross pendant

each constructed of cardboard-reinforced green wool and bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping bisected by a green threaded line

surrounded by a blue enameled ring with gilt institution date of “25 DECEMBER 1833”

constructed of a blue card stock binding

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield Auction Archive He was later promoted to(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 42, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a fully intact reverse paper backer and field grey wool liner indicating Heer issue, the shield measuring 51. 05 mm (w) x 60. 62 mm (h), in extremely fine