Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, by Friedrich Linden of Lüdenscheid - 3rd Pattern with Crimped Hardware and Fluted Pin Auction Archive to recognize the services of

to recognize the services of those involved in the struggle to re-unite Eritrea with the Ethiopian Fatherland

who is supposed to have been lost while on Channel patrol last December and has now been officially declared dead

constructed of multi-coloured card stock

240 mm x 335 mm)

plain and unmarked with the exception of a reverse mark of “WAFFEN-SS”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, by Friedrich Linden of Lüdenscheid - 3rd Pattern with Crimped Hardware and Fluted Pin Auction Archive to recognize the services of(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Instituted November 25th, 1942 (Mid to Late War Issue). A vaulted example, constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade situated over a hollow void, flanked on each side by four oak leaves and sun rays interspersed with two acorns, the reverse with a magnetic square block