Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot Of Badges And Insignia consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Instituted 20 October 1932 by

Instituted 20 October 1932 by Duke Carl Eduard

with a central white cotton/rayon disc overlaid by a machine-embroidered black mobile swastika with arms trimmed in silver aluminum wire piping

varying materials

McDonald was discharged upon demobilization on October 22

The helmet retains traces of its original apple-green paint

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot Of Badges And Insignia consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Instituted 20 October 1932 by(Abzeichen und Insignien). A mixed lot of five badges and insignia, including: 1. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L 18 for B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim,