Germany, Freikorps. A Schlageter Shield, Second Pattern for Combatants, by Paul Küst visually-hidden with touches of red threading

with touches of red threading representing the lion's ears and mouth

ON)  White metal

89 mm (inclusive of suspension)

measuring 86 mm (w) x 86 mm (l) x 22 mm (h)

above inscriptions of “UND IHR HABT DOCH GESIEGT” (“YET THEY WERE STILL VICTORIOUS”) and “MAHNMAL MÜNCHEN” (“MUNICH MEMORIAL”)

Germany, Freikorps. A Schlageter Shield, Second Pattern for Combatants, by Paul Küst visually-hidden with touches of red threading(Schlageterschild, II. Form fr Kmpfer). Instituted 26 May 1933 by the Schlageter Gedchtnis Bund. (1933 1936 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, surrounding a central Latin Cross, flanked by campaign clasps reading SPARTAKUS 1919 23, emanating from an inscription of SCHLAGETER, in turn situated above a pair of crossed swords, the reverse with