Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, by Karl Wurster Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the centre of the walls

the centre of the walls is stitched with a machine-embroidered tricolour cockade set onto a dark blue rayon backer

trimmed in red and black rules along the outer edge of the well

(Ehrenzeichen für Kämpfer 1914-1918)

(Roter Adler-Orden

vertical needle style pin with a sheet metal hinge and a flat wire catch

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, by Karl Wurster Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the centre of the walls(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner, without visible marks but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Karl Wurster, Markneukirchen,