Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class Medal Auction and light scuffing and fraying

and light scuffing and fraying of the edges

two angled pins on the reverse

with a period original ribbon - with glue residue on the ribbon from previous collector’s mounting

maroon cloth-textured on the lid and sides

Official Model (in bronze gilt

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class Medal Auction and light scuffing and fraying(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a double sided circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a raised institution date of