Germany, Third Reich. A Wehrmacht Heer Flak Badge by Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 17 - Artillery Staff Duties)

17 - Artillery Staff Duties)

This short

chipping and loss evident in the black lacquer finish on three sides of the lid)

first printing in December 1969

obverse depicts a rightward facing bust portrait of Benito Mussolini

Germany, Third Reich. A Wehrmacht Heer Flak Badge by Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 17 - Artillery Staff Duties)(Flakkampfabzeichen der Wehrmacht). Constructed of silvered cast zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a folded sheet metal hinge, with a pointy vertical pinback and a flat catch that is soldered onto a plate, an unmarked