Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield certificate_of_authenticity FAI Balloon Competition Award Cup

FAI Balloon Competition Award Cup to the Leader of the Bodensee

greeting figures of Joan of Arc and a Medieval Knight bearing a shield

marked “EASTER 1943”

He signed his Attestation Paper with the 103rd Infantry Battalion on November 23

the exterior bearing a white rayon disc measuring 85 mm in diameter

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield certificate_of_authenticity FAI Balloon Competition Award Cup(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 42, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a fully intact reverse paper backer and field grey wool liner indicating Heer issue, the shield measuring 51. 05 mm (w) x 60. 62 mm (h), in extremely fine