Germany, Wehrmacht. A Demjansk Shield Auction Archive The important features of this

The important features of this dagger are both the blade and its condition

minor material fatigue evident to the presentation case

a highly scarce badge in silver gilt

with crowned Prussian eagles between the arms

” with its period original ribbon

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Demjansk Shield Auction Archive The important features of this(Demjanskschild). Constructed of magnetic metal, the obverse bearing a pair of crossed swords overlaid a frontal depiction of a propeller plane, situated above a raised date of 1942, topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK, and culminating in a central German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn flanked by a pair of log pillboxes, attached with four side clips to a magnetic metal backplate with a postwar replacement dark