Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal certificate_of_authenticity (Deutsches Afrikakorps Schiffchen)

(Deutsches Afrikakorps Schiffchen)

Ontario from June 5 to August 1866

printed on off-white colored velum

In silver with a gilt chrysanthemum

some flecking of enamels and loss of gilt finish evident

Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal certificate_of_authenticity (Deutsches Afrikakorps Schiffchen)(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Geneva Cross, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR CARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE), unmarked, measuring 38. 15 mm in diameter, weighing