Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield certificate_of_authenticity marked “EASTER 1943”

marked “EASTER 1943”

greeting figures of Joan of Arc and a Medieval Knight bearing a shield

while the knife completes with a flattened magnetic metal pommel

and III Class Bronze Grade

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield certificate_of_authenticity marked “EASTER 1943”(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 42, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a fully intact reverse paper backer and field grey wool liner indicating Heer issue, the shield measuring 51. 05 mm (w) x 60. 62 mm (h), in extremely fine