Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Medal, I Class Miniature United Republic of the 82nd Abegweit Light Infantry

the 82nd Abegweit Light Infantry in 1906

A circular gilded silver medal

1880  in Manchester

constructed of brown-painted magnetic metal

1918 and was transferred to the Canadian Engineers Reinforcement Pool on April 30

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Medal, I Class Miniature United Republic of the 82nd Abegweit Light Infantry(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, I. Klasse Miniatur). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR PROTECTION), the reverse bearing a date of 1938 on the three and nine oclock arms, unmarked, measuring 17 mm (w) x 18 mm (h), in extremely fine