Germany, Heer. A Cholm Shield, Long M Variant Archive a 1935 NSDAP Minden meeting

a 1935 NSDAP Minden meeting badge

horizontal swing bar pinback and upward pointing prong intact

Footnote: The War Cross (Crox de Guerre) was instituted on October 25

Stamped onto the crown in black ink is a maker’s mark of “ALEXANDER DAHL

Constructed of zink with gilt pin

Germany, Heer. A Cholm Shield, Long M Variant Archive a 1935 NSDAP Minden meeting(Cholmschild). Constructed of silver plated magnetic iron, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised Heer style German national eagle clutching an Iron Cross defaced by a mobile swastika, situated above an inscription of CHOLM 1942, affixed with all three reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner and partially intact paper backer, the former indicating Heer issue, unmarked, the shield measuring 40.