Germany, Federal Republic. An Anti-Partisan Badge, Gold Grade Collector’s Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1980 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a Freikorps Minenwerfer Abteilung Heuschkel

a Freikorps Minenwerfer Abteilung Heuschkel sleeve insignia

where he joined the Halifax squadron and stayed until demobilization in 1945

with minor flecking of the enamels evident

circumscribed by an inscription of “ALBERTUS ANIMOSUS” (“ALBERT THE VALIANT”)

vertical pinback with four rivets on the reverse

Germany, Federal Republic. An Anti-Partisan Badge, Gold Grade Collector’s Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1980 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a Freikorps Minenwerfer Abteilung Heuschkel(Bandenkampfabzeichen in Gold, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by an additional cluster of oak leaves defaced by a raised skull and crossbones, overlaid by a sword bearing a sunwheel style mobile swastika, plunging into a hydra, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a