Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, With Rare Award Document For The Italian Campaign, By Förster & Barth United Republic of promotions

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thus available as "private purchase"

a 1934 HJ Winterhilfswerk campaign badge

it measures 39cm in total length (or 15 1/2 inches)

on a blue-enamelling background

Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, With Rare Award Document For The Italian Campaign, By Förster & Barth United Republic of promotions(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