Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Krim Shield, by Karl Wurster Auction Archive the tab is backed with

the tab is backed with beige colored buckram (a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue)

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September 30

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

scattered paint loss on the vertical pinback

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Krim Shield, by Karl Wurster Auction Archive the tab is backed with(Kriegsmarine Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed feinzink, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn flanked by dates "1941 1942", the reverse retaining all four attachment prongs affixing the shield to an original metal backplate with a dark navy blue wool liner and intact black backer, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of