Italy, Kingdom. A Second War Commander’s Tank Badge Auction bearing three silvered bronze pips

bearing three silvered bronze pips

he died eighteen years to the day he suffered his shrapnel injuries

to be given to the Germans working the coal mines of the Saar region

with 24 page insert

above a mobile swastika

Italy, Kingdom. A Second War Commander’s Tank Badge Auction bearing three silvered bronze pipsIn bronze gilt with red and black enamels, illustrating a dragon hovering over a tank, surrounded by an open ended wreath of oak leaves, inscribed "FERREA MOLE FERREO CVORE" (Iron Heart, Iron Mole), measuring 46. 5 mm (w) x 31. 5 mm (h), slide locking horizontal pinback, intact enamels, in its original glassine package of issue, mint.