Germany, NSKK. An Old Fighters Sleeve Chevron, Second Pattern Auction Archive 1883 in Edinburgh

1883 in Edinburgh

the shield measuring 54

5 cm (w) x 24

Footnote: This medal was instituted by Pope Pius IX in 1860 and awarded to participants in the Papal forces at the Battle of Castelfidardo

measuring 95 mm (w) x 25 mm (h))

Germany, NSKK. An Old Fighters Sleeve Chevron, Second Pattern Auction Archive 1883 in Edinburgh(Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps rmelwinkel fr Alte Kmpfer). Cconstructed of an olive drab cotton base, topped on the obverse by a layer of olive drab cotton rayon cloth, bearing a machine embroidered silver aluminum wire NSKK insignia in the form of a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika and topped by a banner, situated above a silver aluminum wire chevron overlaid by olive drab threaded bars, the reverse retaining a