unmarked but displaying typical characteristics of "Schwerin of Berlin" (Variation 1) manufacture
This is an exceptional find and most certainly a rare piece
surrounded by a border of silvered chains being broken by the ship near the bottom
Bryson worked as the Superintendent of the lunatic asylum in Chennai (Madras) and
beginning with “Our Crew from left to right: Master Sergeant Lindner the chief captain
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Krim Shield Newly Listed unmarked but displaying typical characteristics(rmelschild Krim). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a map of the Crimean Peninsula and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with two reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool backer, unmarked, the shield measuring 51. 75 mm (w) x 61. 27 mm (h), missing two of its reverse prongs, in