A Scarce Danzig Freikorps-Shield For Faithful Service Auction Archive 1914 with the 7th Infantry

1914 with the 7th Infantry Battalion "1st British Columbia Regiment"

It measures 190 mm x 305 mm when closed and 285 mm x 305 mm when fully extended

leather sweatband exhibits very light crazing

Torches of burning waste and paraffin were sometimes necessary to thaw the blocks and sheaves over which ran the wires used to lower nets and instruments into the sea

1 Clasp - CHILIANWALA (Assist Surgeon A

A Scarce Danzig Freikorps-Shield For Faithful Service Auction Archive 1914 with the 7th InfantryA scarce and well preserved Freikorps Danzig Shield for Faithful Service; in bronze and white and red enamels; horizontal pinback (original pinback, but previously repaired); maker marked M. Stumpf & Sohn, Danzig on reverse; measuring 48 mm x 37 mm; very fine condition.