Description
The case back is unmarked
the obverse with a large mobile swastika with reaching hands in the background
1st Oval Type
1951 and it was decreed that a bronze bar with the name of the foreign theatre of operations for which it was awarded should be worn on its ribbon
5 cm (w) x 39
Germany, Heer. A Private Wartime Photo Album, With Photo Grouping And Arbeitsbuch, To Josef Schmid consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The case back is unmarked(Heer Foto Konvolut mit Arbeitsbuch). A fascinating private wartime photo album documenting the wartime exploits of Josef Schmid, a Heer soldier serving with Pionier Bataillon 753 (3rd Panzer Army; Army Group Centre) on the Eastern Front. It is constructed of a heavy card stock binding with a faux marbled brown leather exterior liner. The spine is perforated with dual holes at both the front and book, all reinforced with magnetic metal eyelets, with a