Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Medal, Ii Class, Heavy Version Archive featuring one with four ribbons

featuring one with four ribbons

the son of Philias Laplante and Lumina Laplante

yellow and green blue enamels

When the 56th LAA Battery South African Air Force was posted to it

crazing evident in the white enamels on the right reverse arm

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Medal, Ii Class, Heavy Version Archive featuring one with four ribbons(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Constructed of feinzink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse with a raised mobile swastika circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR PROTECTION), the reverse with a central raised date of 1938, unmarked, measuring 38. 62 mm in diameter, measuring 28. 9 grams (inclusive of ribbon), in near extremely fine