Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Night Fighter Squadron Clasp, Gold Grade With 400 Hanger Auction and Africa Star / Italy

and Africa Star / Italy Star

measuring 41 mm (w) x 84 mm (h)

the lid sitting slightly askew versus the base

Footnote: This British First World War medal in Gold was sponsored by Sir Charles Wheeler

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (silver

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Night Fighter Squadron Clasp, Gold Grade With 400 Hanger Auction and Africa Star / Italy(Frontflugspange fr Nachtjger in Gold mit Anhnger). Constructed of gilded and blackened zink, the obverse consisting of a central circular blackened laurel wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, around an upward pointing winged arrow, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the bottom of the wreath with dual integral loops accommodating a hanger bearing a raised number 400 flanked by laurel leaves, the reverse with a crimped barrel