Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, Early Variant Auction the son of Elisha Broad

the son of Elisha Broad and Janet Rankine Broad

A circular badge constructed of blue-grey wool

A post-1945 manufactured (probbaly ca

constructed of black rayon with multi-coloured machine-embroidery

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, Early Variant Auction the son of Elisha Broad(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse Silber mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 75 mm (w)