Original German WWII HJ Late War Painted Cap Badge - Membership Pin - RZM M1/185 Bira Gun This is a training mine

This is a training mine manufactured for use by the United States Military in order to train their troops on how to deactivate live German teller mines in occupied Europe

The leather is remarkably very pliable for a piece of historic leather but most areas have hardened

" The division has also received troop monikers of "The Big Dead One" and "The Bloody First" as puns on the respective officially sanctioned nicknames

The buttons are somewhat mismatched

A long opening (27 inches

Original German WWII HJ Late War Painted Cap Badge - Membership Pin - RZM M1/185 Bira Gun This is a training mineOriginal Items: Only One Available. This is a very nice late war German WWII AH jugend Mtzenabzeichen (HJ Cap Badge), marked RZM M1 185 on the back, a maker that has not yet been identified. We have seen other examples, and they were all this same late war style. The pin is constructed out of a die stamped zinc alloy base with late war style red, white, and black paint work, and unlike earlier examples did not have any type of plating on the metal.