Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Prototype War Commemorative Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac first published in the USA

first published in the USA in 1982 by Stemmer House Publishers

Paratroop Badge (1944)

A cloth version of the German Cross in Gold issued to Heer personnel

It incorporates a 35 mm wide leather sweatband with a smooth tawny brown upper and raw underside

affixed to a 27 mm circular mother-of-pearl support

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Prototype War Commemorative Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac first published in the USA(Kriegserinnerungsmedaille Prototyp). Constructed of magnetic iron, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Cross Patte, overlaid by a central Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, bearing dates 1939 1940 in the quadrants, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEN KMPFERN FR DIE DEUTSCHE FREIHEIT (TO THE FIGHTERS FOR GERMAN FREEDOM), unmarked, measuring 32. 57 mm in diameter,