Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, Silver Grade, II Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic MACKINTOSH (PHOTOGRAPHER)

MACKINTOSH (PHOTOGRAPHER)

in retreat until 1945

1/RL HIGHRS

affixed to a bronze backplate with horizontal pinback and an original ribbon

The obverse is marked ”V

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, Silver Grade, II Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic MACKINTOSH (PHOTOGRAPHER)(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker II. Klasse Silber ohne Schwerter). Constructed of silvered zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel wreath, unmarked, measuring 39. 98 mm (w) x 45. 00 mm (h), weighing 14. 0 grams (inclusive of ribbon), in better than very fine