reverse inscribed ""CE METAL PROVIENT DES CHAINES DE L'ANCIENNE SERVITUDE DU PEUPLE FRANCAIS QUE LOUIS XVI A FAIT BRISER / LE 14 JUILLET 1789""
Woodcote Park at Epsom on October 10th
The body of the text is in navy blue and red inks
faintly maker marked “L/54” (Schauerte & Hohfeld
Escapees' Medal (in bronze gilt
Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Decorations and Insignia Buy Now reverse inscribed ""CE METAL PROVIENT(Auszeichnungen und Insignien). A mixed lot of decorations, including: 1. A War War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 32 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 6 grams, in near mint condition.