Germany, SS. A Rare and Mint Waffen-SS Tropical Cap Totenkopf Insignia, Green Variant Auction and the Crimean Shield

and the Crimean Shield

and South African Railways Police who volunteered for war service and served either at home or abroad between South Africa’s declaration of war on 6 September 1939 and 2 September 1945 inclusive

Iron Cross First Class 1939

Footnote: William Albert Atkinson Forbes signed his Attestation Paper as a Trooper with the 19th Alberta Dragoons

from training in Stockerau

Germany, SS. A Rare and Mint Waffen-SS Tropical Cap Totenkopf Insignia, Green Variant Auction and the Crimean Shield(Waffen SS Tropen Schiffchentotenkopf fr Mannschaften). Constructed of black rayon, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered green SS style Totenkopf with details highlighted in black threading, unmarked, measuring 40 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), a rare example of a green tropical insignia as found on page 135 of Insignia and Artifacts of the Waffen SS by Michael D. Beaver, 2012, in unissued and mint condition.