Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield Auction In its balsa wood box

In its balsa wood box of issue

Perkins of Powassan

The response was truly overwhelming

Belgian News agency officially stamped in blue ink "SERVICE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE / AGENCE TELEGRAPHIQUE BELGE S

a fate suffered by his close friend and fellow ace Hans-Joachim Marseille just four weeks before

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield Auction In its balsa wood box(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a 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 zink backplate with a field grey wool liner indicating Heer issue, unmarked, the shield measuring 52. 30 mm (w) x 61. 87 mm (h), with most of the bronze finish lost, in overall