Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, by Rudolf Souval Buy Now a Letter From the War

a Letter From the War Office in London (informing his parents in Johannesburg of their son's award of the Military Cross

set on a 60 mm-long zink bar with a maroon wool reverse liner and horizontal pinback

bearing a raised Arrow Cross overlaid by a skull and crossbones

sitting in a chair in his study

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, by Rudolf Souval Buy Now a Letter From the War(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with four side prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a variant attributed to Rudolf Souval, Vienna, the shield measuring 52. 85 mm (w)