Germany, Heer. Two Period Photos Of A Wehrmacht General Auction Archive Measuring 32 mm

Measuring 32 mm

University of Saskatchewan (bronze-coloured gilt on brass

fraying evident on the inside lid liner

it is our duty to remove the guns to the Gun Room

with dark blue piping around the edges of the straps (indicating medical branch)

Germany, Heer. Two Period Photos Of A Wehrmacht General Auction Archive Measuring 32 mmBoth measuring 10. 5 x 14. 7 cm each; The photos show a soldier of the Wehrmacht, with cap and without. The collar patches identify him as a general or general field marshall. The style of these patches is called alt Larisch, the devices are sometimes called Arabesken (arabesques). Field marshals wore the same as generals until 1941, after which they were authorized to wear a variant with three rather than two iterations of the repeating pattern.