Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Gau Baden Honour Badge, Gold Grade Large Version, By Fr. Klett Auction Archive Lieutenant Jonathan Willard (1744-1832)

Lieutenant Jonathan Willard (1744-1832)

december 1943

Eifelgeländefahrt Motorgrupper Westmark” (“4th Eifel Cross Country Trip

as part of the Canadian Army Medical Corps contingent during the Great War

was not immune to the revolutionary fervour that swept Europe in 1848-1849

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Gau Baden Honour Badge, Gold Grade Large Version, By Fr. Klett Auction Archive Lieutenant Jonathan Willard (1744-1832)(Gau Ehrenzeichen Baden in Gold). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a banner bearing a depressed and blackened inscription of GAU BADEN, surrounding an NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounde catch, maker marked FR. KLETT, KARLSRUHE, measuring 35. 06 mm (w) x 45. 69 mm (h),