Germany, Third Reich. A Schlageter Shield, Type II with Rhein/Ruhr Campaign Clasp, by Paul Küst Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic flanked by a fasces and

flanked by a fasces and swastika

Ludenscheid"

having been cleaned perhaps once during the mid 20th Century

numbered 7865

Germany, Third Reich. A Schlageter Shield, Type II with Rhein/Ruhr Campaign Clasp, by Paul Küst Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic flanked by a fasces and(Schlageter Schild, 2. Form). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, surrounding a pebbled oval field, bearing a raised inscription of SCHLAGETER, with a Latin Cross extending from the top edge, in turn flanked by RHEIN RUHR 1923 24 campaign clasps, the reverse with four visible clips securing the clasps in position, with a vertical pinback affixed to a crimped