Close Combat Clasp-Silver Grade - Fll certificate_of_authenticity ribbon loop marked "A A"

ribbon loop marked "A A"

Berlin  - Gilded tombac

Gerhard Fischer

He saw service in the Boer War as a member of the Army Pay Corps with the British forces and was awarded the QSA and KSA for his service

Mertsch won the German Cross in Gold in September 1943 and would go on to be the artillery commander of  XIII SS-Armeekorps and finished the war commanding a Kampfgruppe in Czechoslovakia

Close Combat Clasp-Silver Grade - Fll certificate_of_authenticity ribbon loop marked "A A"Close Combat Clasp Silver Grade FLL In zinc, marked "F. E. C. W. E. PEEKHAUS BERLIN" and maker marked F L L (for Friedrich Linden, Ldenscheid), slightly vaulted, good quality clasp with good details and plating, slightly worn, magnetic plate replaced (not original), hinge shows signs of repair, otherwise in good condition.