Croatia, Independent State. A Rare Paratrooper’s Sleeve Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Fine Early Quality Gold

A Fine Early Quality Gold Grade Wound Badge In tombac

a large group photo of National Socialist People’s Welfare (NSV) members

reverse with central silvered inscription of “Treue für Führer und Volk” (“Loyality for the Führer and People”) inside an oak leaf wreath

two having faded to a sepia-toned look

Awarded in Schless-Hamburg in April 1916

Croatia, Independent State. A Rare Paratrooper’s Sleeve Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Fine Early Quality GoldIn blue lacquered die stamped aluminum, 35. 9 mm (w) x 53. 7 mm, with four punched holes, with period wear, fine and rare. Footnote: This type of badge was worn during wartime by trained Croatian Paratroopers, sewn onto left upper arm of a tunic. Only several hundreds Croats trained as paratroopers during WWII.