Germany, Third Reich. A National Socialist War Victim’s Care Honour Badge, Gau Level, by Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and two at the shoulders

and two at the shoulders

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with four points consisting of smooth rays and the remaining four set behind with blue enamel presenting large crossed Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces

Elizabeth McNiven of Toronto

5th (Western Cavalry) Battalion

Germany, Third Reich. A National Socialist War Victim’s Care Honour Badge, Gau Level, by Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and two at the shoulders(Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung Ehrenzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a white diamond bearing a gilded National Socialist War Victims Care (NSKOV) insignia, situated within a red enameled border, the reverse with a vertical pinback, maker marked with the logo of Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 28. 18 mm (w) x 38. 90 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.