Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot Of Shoulder Boards Auction (impressed: JAMES BUCHANAN)

(impressed: JAMES BUCHANAN)

an artillery piece in bronze gilt below the wreath

clasp and hanger hallmarked on the reverse with a six-sided star

S/L Smith had a problem with bombs hanging up and had to jettison 3 x 500lb bombs at various points on the homeward track all finding their way into the North Sea

According to O’Connor

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot Of Shoulder Boards Auction (impressed: JAMES BUCHANAN)(Schulterklappen). A mixed lot of eight shoulder boards, including a matching set of Gendarmerie Wachtmeister boards, each constructed of card stock reinforced orange wool and bearing two outer bands aluminum wire piping interspersed with black threaded chevrons, in turn around two inner bands of brown threaded piping, both unmarked and measuring 32 mm (w) x 114 mm (l), each displaying small spots of mothing to the reverse, in overall near extremely